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Wedding Bell Wishes: It Started at a Wedding... / The Wedding Planner and the CEO / Her Perfect Proposal
Lynne Marshall
Kate Hardy
Alison Roberts
Wedding Bell WishesIt Started at a WeddingClaire Stewart thought her day couldn’t get any worse – but she was wrong! As if losing her best friend’s wedding dress wasn’t enough, she’s faced with the ultra-handsome, ultra-successful brother of the bride, Sean Farrell…Oh, and she’s had a crush on him for years!The Wedding Planner and the CEOPenelope Collins is determined that her first shot at planning a celebrity wedding won’t be her last. And if that means begging gorgeous CEO Rafe Edwards for a spectacular last minute firework display, so be it!Her Perfect Proposal Journalist Lilly Matsuda just writes headlines; she doesn't make them. That is, until she runs afoul of Gunnar Norling while on assignment in the tiny town of Heartlandia. And the handsome policeman intrigues more than Lily's investigative senses…
About the Authors (#u4c820493-ca11-5821-9f0a-3a2f289fe79a)
Award-winning author KATE HARDY lives in Norwich with her husband, two children, one spaniel and too many books to count! She’s a fan of the theatre, ballroom dancing, posh chocolate and anything Italian. She’s a history and science geek, plays the guitar and piano, and makes great cookies (which is why she also has to go to the gym five days a week…).
ALISON ROBERTS is a New Zealander, currently lucky enough to live near a beautiful beach in Auckland. She is also lucky enough to write for both the Mills & Boon True Love and Medical Romance lines. A primary school teacher in a former life, she is also a qualified paramedic. She loves to travel and dance, drink champagne, and spend time with her daughter and her friends.
LYNNE MARSHALL used to worry that she had a serious problem with daydreaming—then she discovered she was supposed to write those stories! A late bloomer, Lynne came to fiction writing after her children were nearly grown. Now she battles the empty nest by writing stories that always include a romance, sometimes medicine, a dose of mirth, or both, but always stories from her heart. She is a Southern California native, a dog lover, a cat admirer, a power walker and an avid reader.
Wedding Bell Wishes
It Started at a Wedding…
Kate Hardy
The Wedding Planner and the CEO
Alison Roberts
Her Perfect Proposal
Lynne Marshall
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ISBN: 978-1-474-09299-9
WEDDING BELL WISHES
It Started At A Wedding… © 2015 Pamela Brooks The Wedding Planner And The CEO © 2015 Alison Roberts Her Perfect Proposal © 2015 Janet Maarschalk
Published in Great Britain 2019
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Table of Contents
Cover (#u7d8dcbcd-a41f-52b4-907b-0a17598929a2)
About the Authors (#u6fedcdd1-3333-55d4-ab1d-1303322fbb91)
Title Page (#u331805dc-dea3-54fb-a468-3a3fb09ecc30)
Copyright (#u76adf0c5-5d6b-5c65-9cda-f18f27d95324)
It Started at a Wedding… (#ud60b18a8-d218-5a27-b4ae-a6e505fd5847)
Dedication (#u651dac00-82b3-5678-891a-d2f81c416daa)
CHAPTER ONE (#u83dbac93-7d2b-53fa-ab6d-ae7f35d93e23)
CHAPTER TWO (#ub5e20a25-a75a-5fc6-91d1-9d53388e8254)
CHAPTER THREE (#u4ab7afb4-3f97-5ec2-a187-405de9fd14f8)
CHAPTER FOUR (#u97f2d9e8-fb5a-5ee2-b920-547f3abe5c3b)
CHAPTER FIVE (#u0fcee3d8-3189-5db4-b768-e0d3b9700f6b)
CHAPTER SIX (#udbb34ac0-f422-5422-96b9-48992504168d)
CHAPTER SEVEN (#u46d5a47d-e34f-5835-a7b0-bd0ab2b944f9)
CHAPTER EIGHT (#u0dc553af-83d4-5bcf-a2a2-ce7855cc070a)
CHAPTER NINE (#u2f7e7a1a-cc6d-563c-aa90-319085ebaec3)
CHAPTER TEN (#litres_trial_promo)
CHAPTER ELEVEN (#litres_trial_promo)
CHAPTER TWELVE (#litres_trial_promo)
CHAPTER THIRTEEN (#litres_trial_promo)
EPILOGUE (#litres_trial_promo)
The Wedding Planner and the CEO (#litres_trial_promo)
CHAPTER ONE (#litres_trial_promo)
CHAPTER TWO (#litres_trial_promo)
CHAPTER THREE (#litres_trial_promo)
CHAPTER FOUR (#litres_trial_promo)
CHAPTER FIVE (#litres_trial_promo)
CHAPTER SIX (#litres_trial_promo)
CHAPTER SEVEN (#litres_trial_promo)
CHAPTER EIGHT (#litres_trial_promo)
CHAPTER NINE (#litres_trial_promo)
CHAPTER TEN (#litres_trial_promo)
CHAPTER ELEVEN (#litres_trial_promo)
Her Perfect Proposal (#litres_trial_promo)
Acknowledgements (#litres_trial_promo)
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Chapter Two (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter Three (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter Four (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter Five (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter Six (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter Seven (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter Eight (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter Nine (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter Ten (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter Eleven (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter Twelve (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter Thirteen (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter Fourteen (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter Fifteen (#litres_trial_promo)
About the Publisher (#litres_trial_promo)
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Kate Hardy
To the Mills & Boon True Love authors,
with much love and thanks for being
such brilliant colleagues and friends—
and for letting me bounce mad ideas off them!
CHAPTER ONE (#u4c820493-ca11-5821-9f0a-3a2f289fe79a)
NO.
This couldn’t be happening.
The box had to be there.
It had to be.
But the luggage carousel was empty. It had even stopped going round, now the last case had been taken off it. And Claire was the only one standing there, waiting with a small suitcase and a dress box—and a heart full of panic.
Where was her best friend’s wedding dress?
‘Get a grip, Claire Stewart. Standing gawping at the carousel isn’t going to make the dress magically appear. Go and talk to someone,’ she told herself sharply. She gathered up her case and the box containing the bridesmaid’s dress, and went in search of someone who might be able to find out where the wedding dress was. Maybe the box had accidentally been put in the wrong flight’s luggage and it was sitting somewhere else, waiting to be claimed.
Half an hour of muddling through in a mixture of English and holidaymakers’ Italian got her the bad news. Somewhere between London and Naples, the dress had vanished.
The dress Claire had spent hours working on, hand-stitching the tiny pearls on the bodice and the edge of the veil.
The dress Claire’s best friend was supposed to be wearing at her wedding in Capri in two days’ time.
Maybe this was a nightmare and she’d wake up from it in a second. Surreptitiously, Claire pinched herself. It hurt. Not good, because that meant this was really happening. She was in Naples with her luggage, her own bridesmaid’s dress...and no wedding dress.
There was nothing else for it. She grabbed her mobile phone, found a quiet corner in the airport and called Ashleigh.
Whose phone was switched through to voicemail.
This definitely wasn’t the kind of news Claire could leave on voicemail; that would be totally unfair. She tried calling Luke, Ashleigh’s fiancé, but his phone was also switched through to voicemail. She glanced at her watch. It was still so early that they were probably in the middle of breakfast and they’d probably left their phones in their room. OK. Who else could she call? She didn’t have a number for Tom, Luke’s best man. Sammy, her other best friend, who was photographing the wedding, wasn’t flying to Italy until tomorrow, after she’d finished a photo-shoot in New York. The rest of the wedding guests were due to arrive on the morning of the wedding.
Which left Ashleigh’s brother. The man who was going to give Ashleigh away. The man who played everything strictly by the rules—and Claire had just broken them. Big time. He was the last person she could call.
But he wasn’t in Capri yet, either. Which meant she had time to fix this.
