Falling for the Bridesmaid. Sophie Pembroke

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Название Falling for the Bridesmaid
Автор произведения Sophie Pembroke
Жанр Современные любовные романы
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       Summer Weddings

       A season of confetti and whirlwind romances!

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       Huntingdon-Cross summer weddings.

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       Huntingdon-Cross and Sebastian Beresford in

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      Raise a glass to Rose Huntingdon-Cross and

       Will Carter as they finally tie the knot

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      Join us in celebrating Violet Huntingdon-Cross

       and Tom Buckley’s star-studded wedding day

       in

      Falling for the Bridesmaid by Sophie Pembroke

      Save the date: on sale May 2015

      Falling for the Bridesmaid

      Sophie Pembroke

       www.millsandboon.co.uk

      SOPHIE PEMBROKE has been reading and writing romance ever since she read her first Mills & Boon® book at university, so getting to write them for a living is a dream come true!

      Sophie lives in a little Hertfordshire market town in the UK with her scientist husband and her incredibly imaginative five-year-old daughter. She writes stories about friends, family and falling in love, usually while drinking too much tea and eating homemade cakes. She also keeps a blog at www.SophiePembroke.com.

      For George and Karen, for making this book possible through coffee, childcare and cheerleading! Thank you both, so much.

      Contents

       Cover

       Introduction

       Title Page

       About the Author

       Dedication

       CHAPTER SEVEN

       CHAPTER EIGHT

       CHAPTER NINE

       CHAPTER TEN

       CHAPTER ELEVEN

       CHAPTER TWELVE

       CHAPTER THIRTEEN

       CHAPTER FOURTEEN

       CHAPTER FIFTEEN

       CHAPTER SIXTEEN

       CHAPTER SEVENTEEN

       CHAPTER EIGHTEEN

       CHAPTER NINETEEN

       CHAPTER TWENTY

       CHAPTER TWENTY-ONE

       EPILOGUE

       Extract

       Copyright

      THE SWEET SMELL of rose petals filled the evening air, giving the falling dusk a sultry warmth. Music sang out from the band on the patio, romantic with just an undertone of sexy. Fairy lights twinkled in the branches of the trees and inside the marquees, and around them leaves rustled in the still warm breeze.

      The whole set-up was so perfectly loved-up Violet thought she might be physically ill if she had to suffer through it a moment longer.

      Glaring down at her lavender bridesmaid’s dress, she slunk to the edge of the celebrations where she could watch the live band play in peace. She needed to make more of an effort to enjoy the evening, and maybe the music would help. Her parents’ vow renewal ceremony had been beautiful, and the party that followed a huge success. Later, she had no doubt, her dad and the boys from The Screaming Lemons would take to the stage and wow the remaining guests all over again, even though they’d finished their official set an hour ago. Knowing Dad, it would probably be a lower key, acoustic set the second time around.

      Keeping Dad off the stage was always more trouble than getting him on there, and he always wanted one more encore. But for now the support act seemed to be doing well enough. The courtyard in front of the stage was filled with people dancing, or just holding each other, or kissing. Falling in love.

      Violet scowled and looked away.

      Of course, the situation wasn’t helped by her family. There, leaning against her new husband—Lord Sebastian Beresford, Earl of Holgate, if you please—was her youngest sister, Daisy. No, the Lady Holgate now. Hard to believe that Daisy-Waisy was an honest-to-God countess, but somehow not quite as impossible to process as the slight swell of her baby bump under her carefully chosen emerald-green bridesmaid’s dress.

      Just a few more months and Violet would officially be the maiden aunt of the family. Hell, she was already doing