Fantastically fun new series starter from Kate Canterbary now live!

 

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Blurb

Tara Treloff and Drew Larsen hate each other.

They really hate each other.

This would be fine except for the issue of them sharing a job title
…and an office
…and now a five-hour-long drive to a conference their boss has made mandatory to resolve their issues.

And they would’ve been able to muddle through all of those matters but a major snowstorm is heading their way
…and there’s only one bed.

 

Professional Development  is a steamy contemporary romance standalone novella.

 

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Review

4 stars!

Originally published in the Holiday Ever After Anthology – now with additional content

A delicious enemies-to-lovers romance between two work colleagues, this short story is fun with lots of chemistry.

Drew and Tara are the co-deans at an elementary school (the same school run by Lauren from The Walshes series – book #1, Underneath It All). Their constant bickering and blatant animosity has become too much for their boss, and they are sent away to attend a seminar together with an ultimatum to get their professional relationship straightened out.

Unfortunately for me, I didn’t live in a simple world.
I lived in a world where I wanted my colleague so much, I plowed all the way through lust and came out the other side in the deep end of resentment.

An awkward road trip leads to all sorts of hilarious monologing as the two enemies lament their situation, and we begin to see that not all is as it seems.

The entire situation was bad enough but after we’d stopped at a sandwich shop for a quick meal, he’d rolled his shirtsleeves up to his elbows and drove the remainder of the distance with bare forearms.
The audacity of that fucker. Really.

A blizzard, a one-bed cabin in the snow and an emotional breakthrough later, and they find themselves coming to an unexpected, exciting and most welcome breakthrough together.

“I don’t want to think about the terrible things I’ve said to you and the inexcusable way I’ve behaved. I know what I’ve done. I want to pretend I’m allowed to love you and maybe, in some wild version of my life, you love me too.”

I loved this little story. It’s short and fast-moving, but Canterbary still manages to create two wonderful characters and pack in loads of chemistry, emotion and passion.

4 stars.

An Advanced Review Copy was generously provided by the author in exchange for an honest review.

 

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About the Author

Kate Canterbary doesn’t have it all figured out, but this is what she knows for sure: spicy-ass salsa and tequila solve most problems, living on the ocean–Pacific or Atlantic–is the closest place to perfection, and writing smart, smutty stories is a better than any amount of chocolate. She started out reporting for an indie arts and entertainment newspaper back when people still read newspapers, and she has been writing and surreptitiously interviewing people—be careful sitting down next to her on an airplane—ever since.

Kate lives on the water in New England with Mr. Canterbary and the Little Baby Canterbary, and when she isn’t writing sexy architects, she’s scheduling her days around the region’s best food trucks.

 

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