TRISHA ASHLEY
The Chocolate Collection
Copyright Copyright Chocolate Wishes Chocolate Shoes and Wedding Blues Read on for an Extract of Creature Comforts About the Author Also by the Author About the Publisher
Avon HarperCollins Publishers Ltd 1 London Bridge Street London SE1 9GF
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First published in Great Britain by HarperCollinsPublishers 2015
Chocolate Wishes Copyright © Trisha Ashley 2010 Chocolate Shoes and Wedding Blues Copyright © Trisha Ashley 2012 Creature Comforts excerpt Copyright © Trisha Ashley 2015
Trisha Ashley asserts the moral right to be identified as the author of this work.
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This novel is entirely a work of fiction. The names, characters and incidents portrayed in it are the work of the author’s imagination. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events or localities is entirely coincidental.
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Source ISBN: 9780007365722, 9780007478408
Ebook Edition © March 2015 ISBN: 9780008142568 Version: 2018–07–24
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Title Page TRISHA ASHLEY The Chocolate Collection
Copyright Copyright Copyright Chocolate Wishes Chocolate Shoes and Wedding Blues Read on for an Extract of Creature Comforts About the Author Also by the Author About the Publisher Avon HarperCollins Publishers Ltd 1 London Bridge Street London SE1 9GF www.harpercollins.co.uk First published in Great Britain by HarperCollinsPublishers 2015 Chocolate Wishes Copyright © Trisha Ashley 2010 Chocolate Shoes and Wedding Blues Copyright © Trisha Ashley 2012 Creature Comforts excerpt Copyright © Trisha Ashley 2015 Trisha Ashley asserts the moral right to be identified as the author of this work. A catalogue record of this book is available from the British Library. This novel is entirely a work of fiction. The names, characters and incidents portrayed in it are the work of the author’s imagination. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events or localities is entirely coincidental. All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. By payment of the required fees, you have been granted the non-exclusive, non-transferable right to access and read the text of this e-book on screen. No part of this text may be reproduced, transmitted, down-loaded, decompiled, reverse engineered, or stored in or introduced into any information storage and retrieval system, in any form or by any means, whether electronic or mechanical, now known or hereinafter invented, without the express written permission of HarperCollins. HarperCollins Publishers has made every reasonable effort to ensure that any picture content and written content in this ebook has been included or removed in accordance with the contractual and technological constraints in operation at the time of publication Source ISBN: 9780007365722, 9780007478408 Ebook Edition © March 2015 ISBN: 9780008142568 Version: 2018–07–24
Chocolate Wishes
Chocolate Shoes and Wedding Blues
Read on for an Extract of Creature Comforts
About the Author
Also by the Author
About the Publisher
Chocolate Wishes Chocolate Shoes and Wedding Blues Read on for an Extract of Creature Comforts About the Author Also by the Author About the Publisher
TRISHA ASHLEY
Chocolate Wishes
Avon HarperCollins Publishers 1 London Bridge Street London SE1 9GF
www.harpercollins.co.uk
Copyright © Trisha Ashley 2010
Trisha Ashley asserts the moral right to be identified as the author of this work
A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library
All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. By payment of the required fees, you have been granted the non-exclusive, non-transferable right to access and read the text of this e-book on-screen. No part of this text may be reproduced, transmitted, downloaded, decompiled, reverse engineered, or stored in or introduced into any information storage and retrieval system, in any form or by any means, whether electronic or mechanical, now known or hereinafter invented, without the express written permission of HarperCollins e-books.
HarperCollins Publishers has made every reasonable effort to ensure that any picture content and written content in this ebook has been included or removed in accordance with the contractual and technological constraints in operation at the time of publication
Source ISBN: 9781847561145
Ebook Edition © FEBRUARY 2010 ISBN: 9780007365722 Version: 2018–07–24
I think it is time my wonderful agent had a dedication all to herself, so this one is for Judith Murdoch, with love and thanks.
Table of Contents
Cover Page
Title Page
Copyright
Dedication
Prologue Mortal Ruin
Chapter One There Must Be an Angel
Chapter Two Satan’s Child
Chapter Three Chocolate Wishes
Chapter Four Falling Star
Chapter Five Pay Dirt
Chapter Six Stupid Cupid
Chapter Seven Brief Encounters
Chapter Eight Good Libations
Chapter Nine Drawing the Lines
Chapter Ten Comparative Evils
Chapter Eleven Birthday Wishes
Chapter Twelve Desperate Dates
Chapter Thirteen Ashes of Roses
Chapter Fourteen Fairy Dust
Chapter Fifteen Welcome Gifts
Chapter Sixteen Dead as My Love
Chapter Seventeen Written on the Cards
Chapter Eighteen Charm
Chapter Nineteen In the Mix
Chapter Twenty Fallen Angels
Chapter Twenty-one Garnish
Chapter Twenty-two Darker Past Midnight
Chapter Twenty-three Pax
Chapter Twenty-four Gift Bag
Chapter Twenty-five Mixed Bag
Chapter Twenty-six High Maintenance
Chapter Twenty-seven Pure Criollo
Chapter Twenty-eight Home Alone
Chapter Twenty-nine Rites
Chapter Thirty Grave Concerns
Chapter Thirty-one Party Animals
Chapter Thirty-two Delivering Angels
Chapter Thirty-three Candy-Coated
Chapter Thirty-four Melting Moments
Chapter Thirty-five Proposals
Chapter Thirty-six Behind the Scenes at the Museum
Chapter Thirty-seven Gran Couva!
Acknowledgements
When the normally innocuous radio station she always listened to while she was working suddenly started pumping out Mortal Ruin’s first big hit, ‘Dead as My Love’, Chloe Lyon was in the kitchen area of her small flat, carefully brushing a thick coating of richly scented dark criollo couverture chocolate into moulds, to make the last batch of hollow angels before Christmas.
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