Love Rules

Love Rules
Freya North

An intelligent, sexy novel about best friends, about settling down and about throwing it all away…When you fall in love do you follow your heart or use your head?Thea Luckmore believes in love – the magic spark of true, old-fashioned, romantic love. She's determined only ever to fall head over heels, or rather, heart over head.Alice Heggarty, her best friend, is always falling in lust – with dashing rogues who invariably break her heart. As yet another disastrous relationship ends, Alice makes a decision. It's time to marry and she knows just the man.For Thea, Saul Mundy promises to be the perfect fit and Thea finds herself falling in love and loving it.But though newly wed Alice encourages Thea to settle down and conform, she finds that she's not as keen as she thought on playing by the rules. Alice starts to break them left, right and centre… At the same time, Thea's world, in which love reigns supreme, is shaken to core.When it comes to love, should you listen to your head, your heart, or your best friend?

FREYA NORTH

Love Rules

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Praise for Love Rules: (#ulink_eeca7607-b9b2-5215-9b92-5ebc2258f035)

‘Freya North has matured to produce an emotive novel that deals with the darker side of love – these are real women, with real feelings.’

She

‘Tantrums, tarts, tears and text-sex … what’s not to love about this cautionary tale for true romantics?’

Heat

‘A distinctive storytelling style and credible, loveable characters … an addictive read that encompasses the stuff life is made of: love, sex, fidelity and, above all, friendship.’

Glamour

‘Plenty that’s fresh to say about the age-old differences between men and women.’

Marie Claire

‘Sassy, feel-good read … Chick lit with a good sting in the tail.’

Cosmopolitan

‘Raunchy sex and realistic emotional wranglings make this chick-lit with class.’

Eve

‘An intelligent tale of chance encounters, long-lasting friendship and what it’s like to fall in and out of love.’

B Magazine

Dedication (#ulink_84d7cad0-8ce8-5d10-bb18-dc149075628d)

For Lucy Smouha, Kirsty Johnson and Clare Grogan

My glory is I have such friends.

Epigraph (#ulink_bd2dbd3d-f906-5993-acff-c8479c36a45e)

Something’s gotten hold of my heart

Keeping my soul and my senses apart

Greenaway/Cook

Contents

Cover (#u6e92ed6d-d7a1-5c16-b409-0c4a171fbce9)

Title Page (#ub9558caa-c225-5697-8293-ea34aae85e58)

Copyright (#ulink_c4c0c5d9-886a-5059-88dd-9a8e2cbbc37a)

Praise (#ulink_747de87d-e3ae-502f-b4ff-c94ad0c0e9ad)

Dedication (#ulink_9e304ae3-937f-5441-9e03-87151d475fc4)

Epigraph (#ulink_ac882ff7-9c42-5c12-8856-0e4ca97eebf5)

Mark and Saul and Alice and Thea (#ulink_6a4470c0-0b3d-531a-9016-3f31f78c419a)

Thea Luckmore (#ulink_00862b49-e395-59df-ba81-7179e7062c22)