Kate & Alf

Kate & Alf
Carrie Stone

Kate loves Alf. And Alf loves Kate… Doesn’t he?Kate can’t wait for her long-term boyfriend Alf to propose. So he might be a bit of a control freak who’s obsessed with his career … and he also seems to have conveniently forgotten their two-year plan to get married, buy a bigger house and have children. But Kate’s sure that ring will be on her finger soon.When her thirty-second birthday ends in humiliating, proposal-less disaster, even Kate is left wondering if Alf really is The One. Then Alf’s friend, Marcus, needs a place to stay. With his dark eyes, easygoing manner and kind concern for Kate, Marcus is everything Alf is not - and it's not long before Kate begins to wonder if there’s more to life than diamonds.

Kate & Alf

CARRIE STONE

A division of HarperCollinsPublishers

www.harpercollins.co.uk (http://www.harpercollins.co.uk)

HarperImpulse an imprint of

HarperCollinsPublishers

1 London Bridge Street

London SE1 9GF

www.harpercollins.co.uk (http://www.harpercollins.co.uk)

First published in Great Britain by HarperImpulse 2015

Copyright © Carrie Stone 2015

Cover images © Shutterstock.com

Cover layout design © HarperColl‌insPublishers Ltd 2015

Cover design by Jane Harwood

Carrie Stone asserts the moral right

to be identified as the author of this work.

A catalogue record for this book is

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.

All rights reserved under International

and Pan-American Copyright Conventions.

By payment of the required fees, you have been granted

the non-exclusive, non-transferable right to access

and read the text of this e-book on screen.

No part of this text may be reproduced, transmitted,

downloaded, decompiled, reverse engineered, or

stored in or introduced into any information storage and

retrieval system, in any form or by any means,

whether electronic or mechanical, now known or

hereinafter invented, without the express

written permission of HarperCollins.

Digital eFirst: Automatically produced by Atomik ePublisher from Easypress.

Ebook Edition © January 2015 ISBN: 9780008123079

Version 2015-01-12

In memory of Johnny Battley & Terry Stone

Both of whom are now making the angels laugh.

Contents

Cover (#u0c7e9cfc-1a84-5ca8-9816-a8e70811d366)

Title Page (#u1fe62445-9f5e-5d1d-82b9-c1dba47c5249)

Copyright (#u7046b52c-d028-5336-8504-3620d11874f7)

Dedication (#u60a78ddf-f523-5304-a0f3-eac8d2c6d613)

Prologue (#ubc98fff6-1b94-54ce-aeab-57347cd61331)

Chapter 1 (#u512194b8-e070-5470-b8a4-741c239dcca1)

Chapter 2 (#u3f408144-c203-57e2-ba14-d6def26a9b5a)