Rescuing The Royal Runaway Bride. Элли Блейк

      

      Royal bride on the run...

      Into the arms of an enigmatic rescuer...

      On the way to the Vallemont royal wedding, Will Darcy’s overblown sense of chivalry leads him to rescue a damsel in a muddy wedding dress! And, yes, it’s the princess-to-be! While the media furor dies down, they’re holed up in one hotel room where irrepressible Sadie makes buttoned-up Will reconsider his life. For once work isn’t his priority—resisting the tantalizing royal runaway is!

      Australian author ALLY BLAKE loves reading and strong coffee, porch swings and dappled sunshine, beautiful notebooks and soft, dark pencils. Her inquisitive, rambunctious, spectacular children are her exquisite delight. And she adores writing love stories so much she’d write them even if nobody else read them. No wonder, then, having sold over four million copies of her romance novels worldwide, Ally is living her bliss. Find out more about Ally’s books at allyblake.com.

       Also by Ally Blake

      Falling for the Rebel Heir

       Hired: The Boss’s Bride

       Dating the Rebel Tycoon

       Millionaire Dad’s SOS

      The Royals of Vallemont miniseries

      Rescuing the Royal Runaway Bride

      And look out for the next book

       Amber and the Rogue Prince Coming June 2018

      Discover more at millsandboon.co.uk.

      Rescuing the Royal Runaway Bride

      Ally Blake

       www.millsandboon.co.uk

      ISBN: 978-1-474-07758-3

      RESCUING THE ROYAL RUNAWAY BRIDE

      © 2018 Ally Blake

      Published in Great Britain 2018

      by Mills & Boon, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 1 London Bridge Street, London, SE1 9GF

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      For my husband, Mark,

       who loves nothing more than looking to the stars.

      Contents

       Cover

       Back Cover Text

       About the Author

       Booklist

       Title Page

       Copyright

       Dedication

       CHAPTER ONE

       CHAPTER TWO

       CHAPTER THREE

       CHAPTER FOUR

       CHAPTER FIVE

       CHAPTER SIX

       CHAPTER SEVEN

       CHAPTER EIGHT

       CHAPTER NINE

       CHAPTER TEN

       EPILOGUE

       Extract

       About the Publisher

       CHAPTER ONE

      THE DAY COULD not be more perfect for a royal wedding, thought Will as his open-topped hire car chewed up miles of undulating Vallemontian roads.

      The sky was a cerulean-blue dome. Clusters of puffy white cumuli hovered over snow-dusted mountains and dotted shadows over rolling green hills filling the valley that gave the small European principality its name.

      By Will’s calculations, snow should fall on the valley any day. Instead, the delicate bite of a warm sun cut through the washed-clean feeling that came after lashings of rain. It was as if the influential Vallemontian royal family had wished for it to be so, and so it was.

      But Will Darcy did not believe in wishes. He believed in the human eye’s ability to