*~*Love Notes – Riley to Alex – Preservation by Kate Canterbary*~*

Title: Preservation (The Walshes Series Book #7)
Author: Kate Canterbary
Genre: Contemporary Romance

Two lonely hearts.

Just once, she’d like to be someone’s first choice. 

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. 

Flying under the radar is what he does best. 

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. 

An arrangement of mutual benefit.

Two months, four dates. 

Five, if things go well. 

Five at the most. 

But possibly six. 

Definitely no more than six dates. 

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.

One wild weekend.

After waking up in bed together—very naked and even more hungover—the terms and conditions of their arrangement no longer apply. Now they’re faced with something riskier than exposing their fake relationship: letting go of the past and zipping up the future. 

Some things have to fall apart before they can be put back together.

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The first Walsh to write a note was Matt and he wrote Lauren an absolutely fantastic Love Note – want to read it?

Title: Underneath It All (The Walshes Series Book #1)
Author: Kate Canterbary
Genre: Contemporary Romance

If I had known I’d have a hot architect balls deep inside of me before the end of the weekend, I’d have made time for a pedicure.

Lauren

It’s all the little things—the action plans, the long-kept promises—that started falling apart when my life slipped into controlled chaos.

After I met Matthew Walsh.

I couldn’t decide whether I wanted to run screaming or rip his pants off, and most days I wanted a little of both. If I was being honest with myself, it was rip his pants off, ride him like a workhorse, and then run screaming.

Matthew

A rebellious streak ran through Lauren Halsted. It was fierce and unrelentingly beautiful, and woven through too many good girl layers to count, and she wasn’t letting anyone tell her what to do.

Unless, of course, she was naked.

She wasn’t looking for me and I sure as shit wasn’t looking for her, but we found each other anyway and now we were locked in a battle of wills, waiting for the other to blink.

Sometimes the universe conspires to bring people together. Other times, it throws people down a flight of stairs and leaves them in a bruised and bloodied heap.

Then it was Patrick’s turn and he wrote Andy an wonderful Love Note – make sure you check it out!

Title: The Space Between (The Walshes Series Book #2)
Author: Kate Canterbary
Genre: Contemporary Romance

Some lines are meant to be crossed. 

Patrick

That hair. That fucking hair. It was everywhere, always, and I wanted to tangle my fingers in those dark curls and pull. And that would be fine if she wasn’t my apprentice.

Andy Asani was nothing like I expected. She was exotic and scary-brilliant, and the slightest murmur from those lips sent hot, hungry lust swirling through my veins. Outside my siblings, she was the only person I could name who shared my obsession with preserving Boston’s crumbling buildings.

Andy

My wants were few: good eats, tall boots, hot yoga, interesting work. One incredibly hot architect with the most expressive hazel eyes I ever encountered and entirely too much talent in and out of the bedroom wasn’t part of the original plan. Apparently he was part of the package.

Wine was my rabbi and vodka was my therapist, and I needed plenty of both to survive my apprenticeship. Especially with Patrick Walsh leaving love notes in the form of bite marks all over my body.

It was Sam’s turn a few years ago – he wrote a great Love Note to his love, Tiel!

Title: Necessary Restorations (The Walshes Series Book #3)
Author: Kate Canterbary
Genre: Contemporary Romance

They liked to call me names. Manwhore. Slut. Player. But I make wrong look so right…

He’s a flawed perfectionist…

I can read women better than any blueprint. I understand their thoughts and feelings, their secret desires and insecurities, and I know how to get rid of them once I get off. 

But all bets are off when Tiel Desai slams into my life. She redefines what it means to be friends, and she makes it sound like the filthiest thing I’ve ever heard.

I can’t read the gorgeous conservatory-trained violinist, but she’s the only one keeping me from shattering by small degrees, and I can’t let her go. 

She’s wildly independent… 

My past—and New Jersey—are far behind me, and now my life is blissfully full of music: playing, teaching, and lecturing, and scouring Boston’s underground scene with an annoyingly beautiful, troubled, tattooed architect. 

I’m defenseless against his rooftop kisses, our nearly naked dance parties, the snuggletimes that turn into sexytimes, and his deep, demanding voice.

I have Sam Walsh stuck in my head like a song on repeat, and I’m happy pretending history won’t catch up with me.

The one thing they have in common is a rock-solid disregard for the rules.

They find more in each other than they ever realized they were missing, but they might have to fall apart before they can come together.

It’s the wrongs that make the rights come to life.

A couple of years ago was Will’s turn to get swoony for Shannon in his Love Note – it’s the best!

Title: The Cornerstone (The Walshes Series Book #4)
Author: Kate Canterbary
Genre: Contemporary Romance

A tough-as-nails businesswoman. An arrogant Navy SEAL. A power struggle with no end in sight.

Some people hook-up at weddings. Others break a hotel room bed (and a table, and a desk, and some complimentary bathrobe belts) and discover they’ve been surviving on bargain basement orgasms their entire lives.

The last one? Yeah. That’s all me.

She’s driven and demanding…I wasn’t always a bitch. There’s a dirty little trick to succeeding in business: the sweet and innocent rarely survive. I fought my way up from nothing, and I don’t bend for anyone.

Until Will Halsted ties me to a headboard and makes me his…for now.

One wild, filthy night turns into another, and then…we can’t stop. Each time we’re together is more addictive than the last, but it’s nothing more than a sexy escape from reality.

Or is it?

He’s never walked away from a challenge…I wasn’t always a warrior but now it’s in my bones and blood. That’s what years spent in the Special Forces does to a man. My entire life is classified: where I’ve been, what I’ve seen, what I’ve done, and there’s no mission too dangerous.

Until I realize that falling for Shannon Walsh is like trying to swim against a riptide. She’s going to tear me up and toss me to the shore, and I’ll love every minute of it.

Every time I’m down range, I want her counting the hours until I’m back. Waiting for me. She’s done it before; she’ll do it again.

Or will she?

They’re wrong for each other in every possible way…

Or are they?

Title: Restored (The Walshes Series Book #5)
Author: Kate Canterbary
Genre: Contemporary Romance

Can a reformed player ever truly play by someone else’s rules?

Sam Walsh has finally put an end to decades of self-destruction, turned over a healthy new leaf, and now he’s ready to call himself a married man. But love and marriage are only the beginning, and life is about to get much more complicated.

Will tying the knot tie down a free spirit? 

Tiel Desai never imagined herself getting married again, and before she can blink, she’s swept up into the Walsh wedding whirlwind. If that chaos isn’t enough, she’s also busy winning over her future in-laws, grappling with a bumpy adjustment to her new job, and staying afloat when a string of disappointments hit.

They’re building a future, but can they ever fully demolish the past?

Sam and Tiel beat back their demons and learned to love each other, but love might not be enough to solve every problem that crawls their way.

Last year was Nick’s turn to write Erin a Love Note – be still my heart!

Title: The Spire (The Walshes Series Book #6)
Author: Kate Canterbary
Genre: Contemporary Romance

Rebel, runner, recluse, rich girl. 

Nine years ago, Erin Walsh ran away from everything. 

Home. 

Family. 

Secrets. 

Tragedy. 

Herself. 

The only permanence in her life is catastrophe. 

She travels from country to country, chasing disaster, teasing fire, playing with poison. She guards against real connections, and shuns the only family she has left. 

She holds everyone—even her siblings—at a mile-long distance. It’s the only way to protect herself. 

But she can’t protect herself from him. 

He’s the ice to her fire, and he’s willing to sacrifice everything to bring her home.

Title: Thresholds (The Walshes Series Book #8)
Author: Kate Canterbary
Genre: Contemporary Romance

Twas the weekend before Christmas, when all through the North End 

Not a Walsh had his life together, not even his friends; 

The parties were planned by the foodies with care, 

In hopes that Wes and Erin would soon find their way there; 

The men were stressing over last minute shopping lists and plans, 

While the ladies were busy with work and nesting and finding the right paella pans; 

When out in the dining room there arose such a clatter, 

The Halsted dogs sprang from their beds to see what was the matter; 

They whistled and shouted and called each other names, 

While the secrets and announcements and surprises quickly came; 

So onto another adventure they flew 

With the sleigh full of Walshes, and the Commodore too— 

As they continued arguing and clamoring around, 

Down the road an unexpected visitor came with a bound; 

But it wasn’t long until couples were all nestled snug in their beds, 

With new memories of steamy holiday nights dancing in their heads.

Title: Foundations (The Walshes Series Book #9)
Author: Kate Canterbary
Genre: Contemporary Romance

Fall in love. Get married. Have a baby. Live happily ever after.

That was how it was supposed to go, right? Love and here comes the bride and babies and forever.

But sometimes, forever has a strange way of sorting itself out.

Like a post-baby dry spell with no end in sight—unless a naughty schoolteacher pulls on her fancy panties and takes matters into her own hands.

Foundations is the Underneath It All (Matt and Lauren) novella featuring Six Years Later, the happy-ever-after novella originally published in The Walsh Brothers plus the Jenga, Cocktails, and Cookies novella originally available only to Kate Canterbary’s newsletter subscribers, and two additional bonus scenes.

Oh my gosh – I cannot love Riley’s note more if I tried!

Keep reading to see the full Love Note!

Hey, Honeybee,

When I sat down to write this, I tried to remember the last time we spent Valentine’s Day together. We have a ridiculous history of being together only in the mornings or an hour or two before midnight. I think there was one time we had lunch at the hospital but I might be mixing that up with your birthday. Whenever it was, you called your sandwich anemic and ate all my chips. 

Since that walk down memory lane was too complicated, I just tried to remember last year. I think that might’ve been worse. 

It seems like a decade since last February. It seems like we’ve lived several lifetimes in the past year. It seems like we’ve spent too many of those lifetimes apart. I hate how much time has been stolen from us. I hate how we won’t ever get it back.

There were entire months when I could barely breathe around the fear of something happening to you. I decided I’d force Stremmel to let me see you if you got sick, even if it was against the rules. I planned out speeches to convince you to stop working at the hospital but abandoned them every time you came home because I knew I couldn’t ask it and you wouldn’t do it. 

It might seem like I’m full of piss and vinegar today—I might very well be seeing as the breakfast burrito truck was out of avocado this morning and a burrito without guac is like a body without a soul—but I promise there’s an upside to this. 

We lived through one of the most grueling first years (year and a half, ish) of marriage anyone could imagine and look at us now. Still here, still doing this thing where we build it while we live it. Still scraping together hours between shifts and on-calls. Still dreaming up all the vacations we’re taking when the world opens up. Still batting house ideas back and forth and debating whether we’re grown up enough for that. Still doing our part to keep the local restaurant industry going with all the takeout we order. Still texting each other in rap lyrics. Still creating art on your gorgeous skin.

I know it’s not the day that matters. I know it’s not the flowers or the chocolates, or candlelit dinners or champagne. It’s not the fancy lingerie either since you know how I consider that an extraneous step between clothed and naked. 

The only thing that matters is we still come home to each other at the end of the day—or night, as it tends to be for you. You are mine and I am yours, and life as we know it can grind to a halt and still that truth is unchanged. 

Our lives may never be the same again but the way I love you and belong to you is permanent. 

Happy Valentine’s Day, Alex. 

I’ll love you through all the lifetimes. 

Riley

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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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