Thank You for Holding
On Hold #2
By Julia Kent & Elisa Reed
Genre: Romantic Comedy/Contemporary Romance
Release Date: March
21, 2017
Synopsis
Having it all is
a fantasy, right?
Carrie Shelton
thought her boyfriend was too good to be true. Her best friend's brother? A guy
who loved antiquing? Who cuddled on the couch while watching foodie YouTube
clips and talking about artisanal spices? Who helped her accessorize her
outfits?
Right.
Fantasy.
So when he ran
off with Kevin, the owner of an antique shop, right before his sister’s
wedding, Carrie’s life went from fantasy to nightmare.
As maid of
honor, she can’t back out of the wedding. And her ex is the best man - but now
he has his own best man.
She needs a
date. Stat.
Enter Ryan.
Sure, he’s a hot male stripper at the O Spa where she works as junior designer,
but he’s a few years younger and just, you know -- a friend.
Perfect. She
needs a friend more than she needs a boyfriend.
A weekend of
playing her boyfriend so she can save face is a lot to ask, but for some reason
Carrie doesn't understand, Ryan's all in. Enthusiastic, even.
Especially when
it comes to physical displays of affection.
Public kisses
turn to private confessions, and pretty soon, Carrie can't tell the difference
between fantasy and reality.
Because if
Ryan's just pretending he's in love with her, then why does the chemistry
between them -- and between the sheets -- feel so real?
Carrie can't
settle for almost, though. She's already done that. She's not putting her life
on hold anymore.
Turns out Ryan
won't, either.
He's holding out
for more.
Thank You For Holding is a STANDALONE in the On Hold series. You do not need to
have read book 1 in the series, but after reading about Carrie and Ryan’s
friends-to-lovers adventure, you’ll want to. ;)
Excerpt
RYAN
“How’s
Jamey doing?” I ask. I don’t give a rat’s ass about him. Talking about anything
that will deflate my ever-growing boner is my goal. Think about Donald Trump.
Hillary Clinton. Ken Bone. Betty White.
Perfect.
Deflation sequence activated.
“Jamey
is so sweet!” Carrie gets that weird look again. Her eyes fill with a mild form
of panic, which fades quickly, leaving her chewing on a pen cap. “He got us
tickets for a holiday concert and just stopped by with my favorite coffee.”
“Nice.
But every guy should do that for the person they’re dating.”
“Really?”
She looks so surprised. I hate that she looks so surprised.
“It’s
pretty basic Dating 101 stuff, Carrie.”
“Like
you know anything about dating,” she lobs back at me. “You haven’t had a
girlfriend since I met you.” She walks into her cubicle and nods for me to
follow.
My
heart just got decimated by a SCUD missile. I can’t look at her. I follow, then
pick up one of the metal balls on her Newton’s Cradle and let it clack against
the others. The force shoves the ball on the other end to strike out in an arc.
“Well,
you know…”
She
snorts. “Yeah, I know. Why settle for one woman when you can have a taste of so
many?”
I’m not
sure when she got the idea that I’m some kind of playboy Casanova manwhore.
That’s Zeke. But no matter what I tell her, she doesn’t believe me.
“Right.”
Our eyes meet and I can’t breathe. You spend years pretending and hiding your
feelings and when those little slivers, fractions of time that don’t show up on
a clock, protrude through your facade, you take them as they are.
Real,
raw, and so hard.
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Julia Kent
New York Times and USA
Today Bestselling Author Julia Kent writes romantic comedy with an edge.
From billionaires to BBWs to new adult rock stars, Julia finds a sensual, goofy
joy in every contemporary romance she writes. Unlike Shannon from Shopping for
a Billionaire, she did not meet her husband after dropping her phone in a men's
room toilet (and he isn't a billionaire). She lives in New England with her
husband and three sons in a household where the toilet seat is never, ever,
down.
Elisa Reed
Elisa Reed is a
journalist-turned-fiction-writer whose snappy, irreverent prose combines with
an irrepressible zest for the simpler, and often intimate, pleasures of life to
produce fun(ny) contemporary romance with a focus on second chances. New
England born and bred, Elisa Reed now lives, writes, and plays in New Orleans
and along the sugar sands of the Gulf Coast.
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