Meet Me at the Honeymoon Suite: HarperImpulse Contemporary Fiction. Charlotte Phillips

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Автор произведения Charlotte Phillips
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      Meet Me at the Honeymoon Suite

      CHARLOTTE PHILLIPS

      A division of HarperCollinsPublishers

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      HarperImpulse an imprint of

      HarperCollinsPublishers

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      First published in Great Britain by HarperImpulse 2015

      Copyright © Charlotte Phillips 2015

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      Cover layout design © HarperColl‌insPublishers Ltd 2015

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      Charlotte Phillips asserts the moral right

      to be identified as the author of this work.

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      available from the British Library

      This novel is entirely a work of fiction.

      The names, characters and incidents portrayed in it are

      the work of the author’s imagination. Any resemblance to

      actual persons, living or dead, events or localities is

      entirely coincidental.

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      Ebook Edition © June 2015 ISBN: 9780008119393

      Version 2015-06-29

       As this is the final book in the series I’d like to take this opportunity to say a massive thank you to my amazing editor Charlotte, who has bailed me out of more head-crashing-on-desk moments in the past five years than I care to think about. Thanks also to all the team at HarperImpulse . With HI anything goes really, in terms of ideas, and that has made writing for them great fun.

      Contents

       Cover

       Title Page

       Copyright

       Dedication

       CHAPTER 1

       CHAPTER 2

       CHAPTER 3

       CHAPTER 4

       CHAPTER 5

       CHAPTER 6

       CHAPTER 7

      

       CHAPTER 8

      

       CHAPTER 9

      

       CHAPTER 10

       Also by Charlotte Phillips …

      

       Charlotte Phillips

      

       About HarperImpulse

      

       About the Publisher

       CHAPTER 1

      Amy straightened the grey jacket with the pink piping, the standard uniform for the Lavington Hotel, London, still unfamiliar against her skin after only a few days’ wear. She adjusted the name badge pinned to her lapel.

      Amy Wilson – Wedding & Events Manager, it said in glossy black letters.

      The M-word. How long had she been waiting to have that job title? Years of playing second-fiddle as she worked her way up from trainee via a string of provincial three-star chain hotels, doing the hard graft to pull together business meetings, courses, then later charity dinner dances, Christmas parties and weddings while someone else took the credit.

      Now she was at the Lavington, the position of her dreams having dropped out of the blue into her lap via a word-of-mouth tip off. It almost felt like being headhunted. The Lavington had been left in the lurch when her predecessor had walked off the job without so much as a by your leave, and by lucky chance Amy happened to go way back with the Head Bar Manager here. They’d waited tables together one summer in the distant past. A word or two in the right ear from her friend and the job was as good as hers. To be fair, the Lavington did have its back against the wall, but that didn’t detract from the fact that she was ready for this promotion. Had been ready, in fact, for years. This was her chance at the big time. This was an up and coming boutique hotel in a fashionable area of London with its quirky décor and a sprinkling of celebrity guests beginning to lend it a bit of kudos. It was a world away from the motorway junction hotel chain she’d spent the last few years in, organising endless cheap as chips buffet events while the manager bandied the phrase ‘squeeze that margin’ about.

      Still, she might have the badge but the job wasn’t quite hers – not yet. There were hoops to jump through in the form of a three month trial period. Not that she intended to need it. She knew all eyes would