A Very Accidental Love Story

A Very Accidental Love Story
Claudia Carroll

Eloise Elliot is one of the youngest newspaper editors in the country. She’s at the top of her game but on the eve of her thirtieth birthday, she’s hit with a sharp pang of loneliness.With dazzling clarity, she realises what she wants – someone to share her life with.Fast forward three years and she is the adoring mother of a gorgeous little girl, Lily. Juggling a high-powered job with single motherhood is not easy and when Lily starts asking about ‘daddy’ Eloise begins to panic. What will she tell her?So Eloise goes on a mission to find Lily’s father. After all, she chose the perfect donor, surely there won’t be any surprises…

CLAUDIA CARROLL

A Very Accidental Love Story

For Anita Notaro, with love.

Watch your thoughts, for they become words,

Watch your words, for they become actions,

Watch your actions, for they become habits,

Watch your habits, for they become character,

Watch your character, for it becomes your destiny.

Anonymous

Table of Contents

Title Page (#u8294a822-1ded-50f6-9079-00104b008239)

Dedication (#ue1741ff4-9b00-5f3b-9e5e-ae45ed994ebe)

Epigraph (#u975bc453-947e-5842-a138-26398e117d17)

Prologue (#ue011862a-85cb-5736-9bec-0e43203592af)

Part One: Eloise (#u03e78f60-b286-5b86-8478-0d2c1f94a967)

Chapter One (#ua8056bba-bb22-58e3-b86d-6fe423ca2eb5)

Chapter Two (#u89246110-16ba-52bf-b971-7fd56abf6eca)

Chapter Three (#uf8c9b4c9-30b4-5129-98b5-b31ab71c2a8d)

Chapter Four (#litres_trial_promo)

Part Two (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter Five (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter Six (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter Seven (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter Eight (#litres_trial_promo)

Part Three: Eloise (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter Nine (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter Ten (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter Eleven (#litres_trial_promo)

Part Four (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter Twelve (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter Thirteen (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter Fourteen (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter Fifteen (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter Sixteen (#litres_trial_promo)

Part Five: Eloise (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter Seventeen (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter Eighteen (#litres_trial_promo)

Epilogue (#litres_trial_promo)

Acknowledgements (#litres_trial_promo)

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About the Author (#litres_trial_promo)

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Copyright (#litres_trial_promo)

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Prologue

They say no man is an island, but Eloise Elliot was.

Not that this particularly bothered her most of the time, but tonight was different.

It was her thirtieth birthday, and, bar a few stragglers from the accounts department who’d famously go to the opening of a fridge door if they thought they might scab a free drink out of it, no one had turned up.