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Dedication

       PROLOGUE

       CHAPTER ONE

       CHAPTER TWO

       CHAPTER THREE

       CHAPTER FOUR

       CHAPTER FIVE

       CHAPTER SIX

       CHAPTER SEVEN

       CHAPTER EIGHT

       CHAPTER NINE

       CHAPTER TEN

       CHAPTER ELEVEN

       CHAPTER TWELVE

       CHAPTER THIRTEEN

       CHAPTER FOURTEEN

       CHAPTER FIFTEEN

       CHAPTER SIXTEEN

       CHAPTER SEVENTEEN

       CHAPTER EIGHTEEN

       CHAPTER NINETEEN

       CHAPTER TWENTY

       EPILOGUE

       Extract

       Copyright

       From Paris with Love Collection

       From Paris with Love

       Jennie Lucas, Pamela Brooks and Merline Lovelace

       From Venice with Love

       Trish Morey, Alison Roberts and Kat Cantrell

       From Sydney with Love

       Kelly Hunter, Robyn Grady and Lindsay Armstrong

       From New York with Love

       Carole Mortimer, Nikki Logan and Wendy Etherington

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       From Paris with Love

       The Consequences of That Night

       Jennie Lucas

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       Pamela Brooks

       A Business Engagement

       Merline Lovelace

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       The Consequences of That Night

      Jennie Lucas

      USA Today-bestselling author JENNIE LUCAS’s parents owned a bookstore and she grew up surrounded by books, dreaming about faraway lands. A fourth-generation Westerner, she went east at sixteen to boarding school on scholarship, wandered the world, got married, then finally worked her way through college before happily returning to her hometown. A 2010 RITA® finalist and 2005 Golden Heart winner, she lives in Idaho with her husband and children

       CHAPTER ONE

      A BABY.

      Emma Hayes put a hand over her slightly curved belly, swaying as the double-decker bus traveled deeper into central London in the gray afternoon rain.

      A baby.

      For ten weeks, she’d tried not to hope. Tried not to think about it. Even when she’d gone to her doctor’s office that morning, she’d been bracing herself for some problem, to be told that she must be brave.

      Instead she’d seen a rapid steady beat on the sonogram as her doctor pointed to the flash on the screen. “See the heartbeat? ‘Hi, Mum.’”

      “I’m really pregnant?” she’d said through dry lips.

      The man’s eyes twinkled through his spectacles. “As pregnant as can be.”

      “And the baby’s—all right?”

      “It’s all going perfectly. Textbook, I’d say.” The doctor had given her a big smile. “I think it’s safe to tell your husband now, Mrs. Hayes.”

      Her husband. The words echoed through Emma’s mind as she closed her eyes, leaning back into her seat on the top deck of the Number 9 bus. Her husband. How she wished there was such a person, waiting for her in a homey little cottage—a man who’d kiss her with a cry of joy at the news of his coming child. But in direct opposition to

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