The Mistletoe Seller: A heartwarming, romantic novel for Christmas from the Sunday Times bestseller

The Mistletoe Seller: A heartwarming, romantic novel for Christmas from the Sunday Times bestseller
Dilly Court

**You can pre-order Dilly’s brand new heartwarming Christmas novel now**It’s Christmas Eve. Flurries of snow fall on the cobbled streets of Whitechapel and an abandoned baby, swaddled in a blanket, is found on a doorstep in Angel Lane . . .Named after the street on which she was found, Angel Winter was blessed to be taken from the harsh streets into a loving home. But fate deals a cruel blow and she’s torn from the only family she has ever known, and thrown onto the cobbles of Covent Garden to fend for herself.With winter closing in, Angel scratches a living selling mistletoe to the City gentlemen who pass through the market, hoping they will take pity on her as she shivers in the snow. The only way she can survive is to make her own luck. She will never sell the one treasure that could feed her for a month, the gold and ruby ring that was hidden in her swaddling – it could hold the key to the secrets of her past . . .

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Source ISBN: 9780008199555

Ebook Edition © November 2017 ISBN: 9780008199579

Version: 2017-08-09

Dedication (#u556f5805-6c8e-5942-a7e3-da338249f2d7)

In loving memory of Harry House

2013–2016

Taken too soon but never forgotten

Table of Contents

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Title Page (#u91afbd1b-640a-59b3-a539-16dc3a2de905)

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Dedication (#ud4c6fd44-83e5-56dc-b65b-aadc062f11b5)

Chapter One (#u89bbd3c9-8955-5131-b2a4-83c1db62d1f0)

Chapter Two (#uda282597-c639-5e1b-90ad-a07207404d10)

Chapter Three (#uf7a11d59-5601-5b99-88ee-c10cea8b1955)

Chapter Four (#u19e90074-332e-5950-a2cb-08d659611903)

Chapter Five (#u28fafb0e-066d-5582-886a-7ba05db4deae)

Chapter Six (#ub3481ede-ffc5-58d3-a9f0-0116c3672d9a)

Chapter Seven (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter Eight (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter Nine (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter Ten (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter Eleven (#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)

Chapter Seventeen (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter Eighteen (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter Nineteen (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter Twenty (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter Twenty-One (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter Twenty-Two (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter Twenty-Three (#litres_trial_promo)