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Two lonely hearts.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n Just once, she’d like to be someone’s first choice.<\/p>\n She’s strong-willed and spunky, but she’s left picking up the pieces from her ex’s lies and manipulations, and daydreaming about taking a scalpel to his scrotum.<\/p>\n Flying under the radar is what he does best.<\/p>\n He’s laid-back and loyal, but he wants the most off-limits woman in his world, and nothing will ever make that a reality.<\/p>\n An arrangement of mutual benefit.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n Two months, four dates.<\/p>\n Five, if things go well.<\/p>\n Five at the most.<\/p>\n But possibly six.<\/p>\n Definitely no more than six dates.<\/p>\n Only the appearance of a romantic relationship is required, and they expect nothing more from their time together. There will be none of those benefits involved.<\/p>\n One wild weekend.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n After waking up in bed together\u2014very naked and even more hungover\u2014the terms and conditions of their arrangement no longer apply. Now they’re faced with something riskier than exposing their fake relationship:\u00a0 letting go of the past and zipping up the future.<\/p>\n Some things have to fall apart before they can be put back together.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n PRESERVATION excerpt \u2013 \u00a9 2017, Kate Canterbary<\/em><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Riley pointed at the plate between us. “These are my favorite pretzel bites in the city. Try some.”<\/p>\n I shot him a sharp look. “Are you just trying to get me in a good mood?” I asked. “I did eat lunch today.”<\/p>\n “Oh yeah?” he asked, dipping two pretzels in the accompanying sauce. “What did you have?\u00a0 Based on you yelling at me about noticing your shoes, I’d say it was an iced venti skinny latte.”<\/p>\n “Almonds,” I replied. And an iced venti skinny latte but I wasn’t copping to that just yet.<\/p>\n Riley tried to fight a laugh, and failed. “Almonds?” he repeated.<\/p>\n “Chocolate covered almonds, yes.” I folded my arms across my chest. “It was an appropriate amount of calories, fat, protein, and carbs.”<\/p>\n He shook his head and ate another pretzel. “I don’t want to live in a world where a few almonds\u2014chocolate or otherwise\u2014are lunch.” \u00a0 He pointed to the plate and pushed his beer toward me.\u00a0 “Eat. Drink. Please.”<\/p>\n I glared at the pilsner and pretzels. I hated being told what to do. Just fucking hated it. But then my stomach growled\u2014goddamn <\/em>it\u2014and Riley shot me a pointed glance.<\/p>\n “People think that a rumbling stomach is the sign of hunger,” I said, reaching for his glass. I drained the beer and then selected a pretzel for dipping. “It is not.”<\/p>\n Riley gazed at me, his expression flat. It gave me a moment to study him while choosing another pretzel. He was wearing jeans, a tailored shirt with the cuffs rolled up to his elbows, and a pinstriped vest, and his hair was a wreck. It looked like he’d been tugging the dark strands in every conceivable direction.\u00a0 His eyes were rimmed with a bit of red and his lids heavy, as if he’d been rubbing them or hadn’t gotten much sleep. Perhaps both. There was a small notebook beside his phone, and a mechanical pencil tucked into the spiral binding.<\/p>\n And he was still more attractive than I knew how to handle. Even tired and irritable, and ordering me to eat his pretzels and drink his beer, he was hot as fuck. I bit into another pretzel and offered him a small smile.<\/p>\n “Would you say the chip on your shoulder is massive or epic?” he asked. There was no hint of amusement in his tone, and he was staring at me with more ice than I’d believed he could muster. It didn’t feel like we were sniping at each other anymore. “It might be semantics to you but I’m trying to get a feel for what I’m dealing with here.”<\/p>\n But then one of his big hands found my leg under the table. He squeezed and rubbed his thumb along the hollow of my knee, and I started to believe I’d been all wrong about this man. There was the player and there was the overgrown kid, but there was so much more than that.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Underneath It All (#1)<\/strong> (Matt & Lauren) The Space Between (#2)\u00a0 <\/strong>(Patrick & Andy) Necessary Restorations (#3)\u00a0 <\/strong>(Sam & Tiel) The Cornerstone (#4)<\/strong> (Shannon & Will) Restored (#5)<\/strong> (Sam & Tiel) The Spire (#6) <\/strong>(Erin & Nick) Preservation (#7)<\/strong> (Riley & (it’s a secret)) Threholds<\/strong> (#8) (the whole family!) <\/p>\n Foundations is the Underneath It All<\/em> (Matt and Lauren) novella featuring Six Years Later<\/em>, the happy-ever-after novella originally published in The Walsh Brothers plus the Jenga, Cocktails, and Cookies<\/em> novella originally available only to Kate Canterbary\u2019s newsletter subscribers, and two additional bonus scenes.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n <\/p>\n The Escapist Book Blog is not responsible for this giveaway<\/em><\/p>\n Kate Canterbary doesn\u2019t 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\u2013Pacific or Atlantic\u2013is 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\u2013be careful sitting down next to her on an airplane\u2013ever since. Kate lives on the water in New England with Mr. Canterbary and the Little Baby Canterbary, and when she isn\u2019t writing sexy architects, she\u2019s scheduling her days around the region\u2019s best food trucks.<\/p>\n FACEBOOK<\/a>\u00a0| TWITTER<\/a>\u00a0| INSTAGRAM<\/a>\u00a0 |\u00a0 PINTEREST<\/a>\u00a0|\u00a0GOODREADS<\/a>\u00a0|\u00a0AMAZON<\/a>\u00a0 | \u00a0FB GROUP<\/a> <\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Preservation (The Walshes #7) By Kate Canterbary Releasing May 23, 2017 Amazon US\u00a0 |\u00a0 Amazon UK\u00a0 |\u00a0 Amazon CA\u00a0 |\u00a0 Amazon AU\u00a0 |\u00a0 B&N\u00a0 |\u00a0 Kobo\u00a0 |\u00a0 iTunes Blurb Two lonely hearts. 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