If You Can Hold Me

Nellie Belanger and JP Marchand have the perfect arrangement:1. She comes to Montreal2. He makes sure she comes when she's in Montreal.3. That's it.Despite missing out on her life-changing internship and committing herself to a summer of social obligations and stuffy events so she can afford to finish her final year of university, Nellie's feeling pretty lucky. Between regular rendezvous with her former professor, Ben, and the sweet arrangement with JP, Nellie's busy, satisfied after finding not one but two friends-with-benefits who are into her no-strings-attached philosophy.When Anne-Marie-Nellie's best friend and JP's sister who wants nothing more than for Nellie and JP to add strings to their arrangement-catches Nellie returning home red-faced and sweaty one night, it sets off a series of events involving a charity fun run and an unexpected betrayal, leaving Nellie scrambling to meet her father's unreasonable expectations.But after her brilliant solution offends the wrong person and leads her father to issue a devastating ultimatum, Nellie must do something she swore she'd never do again: ask JP Marchand for a favour.And JP knows exactly what he wants in return.