Title: What About Now?
Series: Everlasting Ink #4
Author: Kaylee Ryan
Genre: Contemporary Romance
Tropes: Small Town/Age Gap/Tattoo Artist
Found Family/Drunken Vegas Wedding
Release Date: February 11, 2025
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NYT and USA Today Bestselling author Kaylee Ryan brings you a new standalone series surrounding five best friends who co-own a tattoo studio. “What About Now?” is an age gap, found family, drunken Vegas wedding, small town romance.
Brogan
I didn’t plan on hooking up with my new brother-in-law’s best friend… or marrying him.
Life hasn’t been easy, and it’s left me a little bruised, and a lot cautious. So, when I wake up in Vegas married to Maddox, I’m convinced it’s a mistake. A drunken accident that we should undo before anyone finds out.
But he doesn’t see it that way. He asks for six months. Six months to show me we could be something real. And I don’t know why I say yes, except maybe a part of me wants to believe him.
I’m not sure I deserve someone like him. But with every look, every touch, and every little gesture, Maddox is breaking down my walls.
That’s why the next time he asks “what about now?” I know I’m going to say yes.
Maddox
I always thought Brogan was off-limits. Our paths didn’t just cross, they tangled.
If things didn’t work out between us, it would hurt a lot of people. So I stayed in my lane, convincing myself it was for the best.
Until Vegas.
One too many drinks, a blurred wedding chapel, and a couple of shiny rings later, Brogan wakes up next to me… as my wife.
She’s ready to call it a mistake and move on, but I see it for what it is: fate handing me the chance I’ve been too scared to take.
So I make her a deal. Six months. I’ll prove we belong together, and if she still doesn’t believe it, we’ll walk away. No hard feelings.
But I’m not going down without a fight. Flowers, her favorite coffee—I’ll give her everything she never knew she wanted, including me.
And one of these times when I ask if she believes it yet that were meant to be, I just might get the answer I’m hoping for.
Because I’ve waited long enough to make her mine, and this time, I’m not letting her go.
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Sunny Shelly’s Review: 5 Stars
I have loved every book so far in the Everlasting Ink series, and What About Now? did not disappoint! Maddox and Brogan’s relationship starts off as a drunken marriage (that neither of them can remember the next morning) while in Vegas for the marriage of her twin sister Briar to Forest. Maddox has been interested in Brogan for a while, but was afraid to make a move, so he proposes she gives him six months of staying married to see if they could make a real go of things.
Brogan has a crush on Maddox as well, but she feels broken and lives with crushing guilt stemming from the night that she and Briar were attacked a frat party several years ago. Worried that her demons will be too much for him, she is so afraid to really let herself go around Maddox. But Maddox…. sweet, sweet Maddox… is so patient and loving and attentive and gives Brogan all the space she needs to come around and trust that he wants her as his endgame.
Parts of this story were tough to get through, like their joint therapy session, which broke my heart! But it is a swoony and romantic story. I really thought Kaylee Ryan did a fantastic job writing Briar’s book, and Brogan’s story was just as heartbreaking and well-written.
This whole series has been one five-star read after another for me, and I can’t wait to (hopefully!) see Maggie & Lachlan bring it home!
I received an advanced copy and voluntarily left a review.
Brogan has a crush on Maddox as well, but she feels broken and lives with crushing guilt stemming from the night that she and Briar were attacked a frat party several years ago. Worried that her demons will be too much for him, she is so afraid to really let herself go around Maddox. But Maddox…. sweet, sweet Maddox… is so patient and loving and attentive and gives Brogan all the space she needs to come around and trust that he wants her as his endgame.
Parts of this story were tough to get through, like their joint therapy session, which broke my heart! But it is a swoony and romantic story. I really thought Kaylee Ryan did a fantastic job writing Briar’s book, and Brogan’s story was just as heartbreaking and well-written.
This whole series has been one five-star read after another for me, and I can’t wait to (hopefully!) see Maggie & Lachlan bring it home!
I received an advanced copy and voluntarily left a review.
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New York Times and USA Today Bestselling author Kaylee Ryan has been crowned the Queen of Swoon by her readers. With nearly fifty romance books under her belt, she’s known for penning happily ever afters with heart. When she’s not writing, you can find her with a book in her hand or hanging out with her family where she resides in her home state of Ohio.
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