Runaway Bride: A laugh out loud funny and feel good rom com

Runaway Bride: A laugh out loud funny and feel good rom com
Mary Jayne Baker

A heart-warming novel about love and new beginnings, this is the perfect book for spring!Here comes the bride… but how long can she hide?When Kitty Clayton flees her wedding with no money, no bank card and no phone, her life seems worryingly futureless. All she knows is, she’d rather sleep on the streets than go back home to cheating Ethan.After picking her up hitch-hiking, widowed children’s author Jack Duffy takes Kitty under his wing, looking out for her until she gets back on her feet. And it’s not long before the two grow close…But with Jack struggling to recover from the guilt he feels over his wife’s death and Kitty refusing to face up to the problems she’s running away from at home, will the two ever manage to share a happily ever after?

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Source ISBN: 9780008258337

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Version: 2018-01-26

Table of Contents

Cover (#u18c7a910-3f02-5f01-a4ba-5a2b23eba14a)

Title Page (#uf94063ac-a9df-56f3-a97f-47c765f1897e)

Copyright (#u66491c98-01d3-57b3-b3b0-1f890fbc9d3d)

Dedication (#u95fa2886-f49e-557d-8d55-975c37a98660)

Chapter 1 (#u6f44cf5f-2cb0-53a1-b458-71b008db6439)

Chapter 2 (#u26326059-205c-511c-a786-2f5b418f3a73)

Chapter 3 (#u0691d3bd-4730-5a9d-bb21-762645c529f3)

Chapter 4 (#uaf40d958-e0e4-5de8-9d21-7ce556fb40e2)

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