The Belle and the Beard by Kate Canterbary

The Belle and the Beard by Kate Canterbary is now live!

Jasper-Anne Cleary’s guide to salvaging your life when you find yourself publicly humiliated, out of work, and unemployable at 35—not to mention newly single:

1. Run away. Seriously, there’s no shame in disappearing. Go to that rustic old cottage your aunt left you. Look out for the colony of bats and the leaky roof. Oh, and the barrel-chested neighbor with shoulders like the broad side of a barn. Definitely look out for him.

2. Stop wallowing and stay busy. It doesn’t matter whether you know how to bake or fix things around the house. Do it anyway. Dust off your southern hospitality and feed that burly, bearded neighbor some pecan pie.

3. Meet new people. Chat up the grumpy man-bear, pretend to be his girlfriend when his mother puts you two on the spot, agree to go as his date to a big family party. Don’t worry—it’s only temporary.

4. Cry it out. Screwing up your life entitles you to wine, broody-moody music, and uninterrupted sobbing. 

5. Get over it all by getting under someone. Count on your fake boyfriend to deliver some very real action between the sheets. 

6. Move on. The disappearing act, the cottage, the faux beau—none of it can last forever. 

Linden Santillian’s guide to surviving the invasion when a hell-in-heels campaign strategist moves in next door:

1. Do not engage. There is no good reason you should chop her wood, haul her boxes, or pick her apples. 

2. Do not accept gifts, especially not the homemade ones. Disconnect the doorbell, toss your phone over a bridge, hide in the basement if you must, but do not eat her pie. 

3. Do not introduce her to your friends and family. They’ll favor her over you and never let you forget it.

4. Do not intervene when she’s crying on the back porch. Ignore every desire to fix the entire world for her. By no means should you take her into your arms and memorize her peach-sweet curves. 

5. Do not take her to bed, even if it’s just to get her out of your system.

6. Do not, under any circumstances, fall in love with her.

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USA Today Bestseller Kate Canterbary writes smart, steamy contemporary romances loaded with heat, heart, and happy ever afters. Kate lives on the New England coast with her husband and daughter.

 
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 This is book 3 in the Santillian Triplet series. It does stand alone and I have not read the first two books in the series. Its told in a dual POV between Linden Santillian and his new neighbor, Jasper. 

Linden is a bearded, grumpy 36 year old arborist and he meets his new neighbor, Jasper when he thinks she is breaking in. She is the long lost niece of his previous neighbor and the house Jasper inherits is a disaster. Linden tries to help her but she is pretty grumpy too and wants to do it all herself.

This is a take on Beauty and the Beast, Belle and the Beard. I loved the title and the story was very interesting as we learn of Jasper's past as she tries and figure out what her future should be.  

Jasper is 35 and pretty much starting over and has lost everything from her marriage to her job in politics. Linden is very much a loner but who is very close to his family. I loved his relationship with his sister and his brother and how he interacts with them.

This story had some humor in it but mostly its a more serious book as Jasper has to try and figure out what her future will be. I loved how much Linden likes her and how he wants to help her out.