Trisha Ashley - The Chocolate Collection

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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

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.