Undone
CAITLIN CREWS
She’s been a very good girl…Now she’s learning to be bad!Ditched at the altar for being boring in bed, prim lawyer Maya Martin goes on a solo Amalfi Coast honeymoon with one goal in mind: proving her ex wrong!And when she meets tattooed, hard-bodied Charlie Teller, he seems just the man for the job – he’s so hot it’s criminal! This Christmas, Charlie will help Maya unleash her wild side…over and over again!
She’s been a very good girl...
Now she’s learning to be bad!
Ditched at the altar for being boring in bed, prim lawyer Maya Martin goes on a solo Amalfi Coast honeymoon with one goal in mind: proving her ex wrong! And when she meets tattooed, hard-bodied Charlie Teller, he seems just the man for the job—he’s so hot it’s criminal! This Christmas, Charlie will help Maya unleash her wild side...over and over again!
USA TODAY bestselling and RITA
Award–nominated author CAITLIN CREWS loves writing romance. She teaches her favourite romance novels in creative writing classes at places like UCLA Extension’s prestigious Writers’ Program, where she finally gets to utilise the MA and PhD in English Literature that she received from the University of York in England. She currently lives in the Pacific Northwest, with her very own hero and too many pets. Visit her at caitlincrews.com (http://caitlincrews.com).
Undone
Caitlin Crews
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ISBN: 978-1-474-07148-2
UNDONE
© 2018 Caitlin Crews
Published in Great Britain 2018
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Contents
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Back Cover Text (#u1b874fe0-9f89-58b2-937d-31f005cbf7fe)
About the Author (#uf1b17ba1-9a9d-572f-8e94-5bd9bf479a56)
Title Page (#uac57739d-82e1-5dbe-840a-ad5ef9056f29)
Copyright (#u658cdd3b-effe-5094-8c38-cade09a6e74d)
CHAPTER ONE (#ub96fcd2b-c163-5b84-b924-228d0f925765)
CHAPTER TWO (#ufdaf374e-7f48-5d23-b676-9db584d4b83e)
CHAPTER THREE (#u62b5435e-ee3a-56b3-a57d-0ce19242c9ad)
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CHAPTER ONE (#ue80afc6d-7198-5284-8cf5-ff6e507ac2e4)
EVERYONE WARNED HER not to go to Italy.
They said it was a bad gut reaction that she would regret, bitterly.
“It will be like a funeral march,” Maya Martin’s older sister, Melinda, had asserted, her familiar body vibrating with the force of her outrage that her sister had been treated so shabbily. Maya could relate. She had been in a constant state of outrage—or maybe it was fury, possibly covering up something like grief—ever since Ethan had made his ugly little announcement and ruined all of the plans Maya had made. For her wedding and her life. “You can’t possibly take your own honeymoon trip alone. It will make you crazy.”
“More crazy than being left at the altar? Almost literally?” Maya had retorted, standing there with her hair and makeup exquisite and ready for the ceremony her father had canceled after it became clear Ethan couldn’t be reasoned with. “Because that’s hard to imagine.”
Melinda had made a face. But the facts were simple and incontrovertible.
Ethan, who Maya had been set to marry that very day, was not in love.
Not with Maya, anyway.
“We’ve always been best friends before we were anything else,” he had said, in his usual warm way, his hazel eyes bright and clear, not tormented. That part had seemed significant later. “Haven’t we?”