Part of Series
Ten years ago, I was on my way to becoming a man. She was still a girl. I was on vacation when my whole world shifted. She was oblivious to her effect on me. Butterfly. That’s what I named her because she’s beautiful and delicate, her wings ready to open so she can fly. Then I can capture her and make her mine. But she’s proving to be tough and it’s hard for me to be gentle. I’m not accustomed to dealing with female disobedience. But I have my ways to get what I want. Now that I’m back in Falls Village to claim what I was forced to leave behind; I will not stop until I have her. Fate steps in and provides me with an opportunity that I take advantage of. My Compatible Companions’ match proves to be the perfect sexually like-minded female. I give her the summer to accept our contract and be mine. I’m a very different man than I once was but I still have family obligations and responsibilities I’m not entirely comfortable fulfilling. I’ll do whatever it takes to be sure my family is respected and that I honor my father and uncle’s memory even if those are hard promises to keep.
Author
Kitty Berry grew up an only child who never wished for a sibling in a small town in Connecticut. After graduating with a degree in Early Childhood Special Education, she began teaching in the field and started to raise a family. Her literary influences happened later in life when she stumbled upon The Pilot’s Wife by Anita Shreve after seeing it featured on the Oprah Show. It was her late mother’s (whose name she uses as a pen name) desire of becoming a writer that prompted Kitty to create a contemporary romantic series. Being a creative person by nature who came into writing during a time in her life when the busy balance of career and family made her crave an escape into the world of romance, Kitty took that desire and turned it into a romantic series that offers the reader multidimensional characters. In 2013, she published her first novel from The Stone Series, Sliding. Since then she has written 10 other novels in that series, among them Stoned, Second Chances, Surrender, Starting Over, and Silence. The final installment, Survivor was released in 2016. A holiday edition was released in late 2018. Since then, Berry has released a trilogy titled, The Anatomy of Love and written a carry-over stand-alone novel, Vines of Ivy. In 2019, she released the Compatible Companions Trilogy. Because angst-ridden, plot-driven, women's contemporary romances mesmerize Kitty, Berry writes only in that genre. While each book in The Stone Series can stand alone with its own story, Berry’s intention was to create carry-over characters to satisfy the need of the reader to know more after each novel ends. As an avid reader herself, Kitty enjoys the feeling of being there with the characters inside the story and often finds herself wanting to know more about them, missing them when the story is over, and becoming excited all over again when she discovers those familiar characters in subsequent novels. It is her hope that The Stone Series will do the same for her readers. Kitty is married to a man she met in graduate school and has three boys who are almost men. Kitty recently founded RomantiConn (a romance author signing event annually held in CT) and is currently working on the Falls Village anthology hybrid with her fellow RomantiConn authors. Visit Kitty’s website @ www.kittyberryauthor.com
