The Love Coupon (Stubborn Hearts 2)

Evanescence: “Bring Me to Life”

Nirvana: “Smells Like Teen Spirit”

Machine Gun Kelly with Hailee Steinfeld: “At My Best”

Bruce Springsteen: “Glory Days”

The Rolling Stones: “(I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction”

HAIM: “Right Now”

OneRepublic: “No Vacancy”

The Chainsmokers and Coldplay: “Something Just Like This”

Shawn Mendes: “There’s Nothing Holdin’ Me Back”

Pharrell Williams: “Happy”

Prince: “Cream”

Madonna: “Justify My Love”

George Michael: “I Want Your Sex”

Usher: “Trading Places”

Miley Cyrus: “Adore You”

Ariana Grande: “Dangerous Woman”

Beyoncé featuring Jay Z: “Drunk in Love”

Sia: “We Can Hurt Together”

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Can you fall in love in thirty-six questions?

Read on for an excerpt from THE LOVE EXPERIMENT, from Ainslie Paton’s STUBBORN HEARTS series

Chapter One

Derelie Honeywell heard the word cutback and felt her organs flip inside out and shrivel.

What exactly was a cutback? Back home it was what people did with out-of-control weeds. Was it worse coffee in the break room? Could that be a thing? Longer hours for less pay? Was that even possible? Freaking hell. Getting this job had been hard enough, and now it was going to be that much harder to keep it.

It didn’t help that the word cutback came from the mouth of the paper’s biggest bastard. Phil Madden was one of the reasons life in the big city of Chicago was more scary than windy. His once-upon-a-time offensive-tackle massiveness was one factor. But it was the reality that as editor-in-chief of the Courier, and Derelie’s ultimate boss, he muscled over anything that opposed his vision for the paper that made him truly formidable.

Phil got what Phil wanted or you got a different job somewhere else. He was a bastard amongst bastards in an industry that proudly measured that kind of thing.

Less than a year into her new job, Derelie was quietly terrified of him.

She must’ve made a sound because her cube mate Eunice elbowed her and she scored a glance from her section editor. “Don’t look so scared,” Shona whispered. “Every year around now we get the cutback talk.”

“You’re not a real reporter till you’ve survived a cutback,” Eunice muttered.