The Little Clock House on the Green. Eve Devon

Chapter 21: Sun Tzu and the Offside Rule

      

       Chapter 22: Juliet and Oscar Standing by a Tree, A-R-G-U-I-N-G

      

       Chapter 23: Is That a Presentation in Your Pocket?

      

       Chapter 24: All the World’s a Stage and Now I Get Stage-Fright?

      

       Chapter 25: Queensberry Rules

      

       Chapter 26: Parallel Universes

      

       Chapter 27: Conversation Starters For One

      

       Chapter 28: Past Tense, Present Tense, Totes Tense

      

       Chapter 29: The Girl Next Door

      

       Chapter 30: Life Isn’t Like in the Movies

      

       Chapter 31: By The Light of the Silvery Moon

      

       Chapter 32: Nocturnal Habits

      

       Chapter 33: Money, Money, Money – It’s So Funny…

      

       Chapter 34: You’ve Got To Be In It To Win It

      

       Chapter 35: The Curious Incident of the Plan in the Night-time

      

       Chapter 36: Thanks For Nothing, Mr Tumnus

      

       Chapter 37: Going Once, Going Twice… Sold

      

       Chapter 38: How to Lose a Guy in Zero Dates

      

       Chapter 39: Out of the Barbecue, Into the Fire

      

       Chapter 40: Gonna Swing From the Chandelier

      

       Chapter 41: Red Sky at Night

      

       Chapter 42: Sign of the Times

      

       Chapter 43: All For One and One For All

      

       Chapter 44: The Writing on The Clock House Wall

      

       Chapter 45: On That Fete-ful Day

      

       Chapter 46: Fete-fully Yours

      

       Chapter 47: Clocking Off

      

       Acknowledgements

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      ‘Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul,

      And sings the tune without the words,

      And never stops at all.’

       Emily Dickinson

       Chapter 1

       Accidental Selfie Hell

       Kate

      Jiminy Cricket! It was hotter than Hades in the shade. Kate didn’t think Tobago was ever supposed to get this hot. Arching her neck, she held the water bottle she’d been eking out for the last quarter of a mile to her skin and rolled it back and forth in the hope of teasing out the last condensation-filled cooling properties.

      Honestly, how couples even – you know – coupled in this heat she had no idea. Not that she was here for coupling, which was probably why she was attracting attention and almost certainly what was making her job reviewing the luxury resort’s facilities so difficult.

      Was there anywhere on earth more guaranteed to make you stick out like a sore thumb than at a couples-only resort when you weren’t part of a couple?

      If she’d still been seeing Marco, she could have invited him