The Chocolate Collection
From Sunday Times bestselling author Trisha Ashley comes a delicious treat of a collection. Chocolate Wishes and Chocolate Shoes and Wedding Blues.Chocolate WishesConfectioner Chloe dispenses inspirational sweet treats containing a prediction for each customer. If only her own life was as easy to forecast – perhaps Chloe could have foreseen being jilted at the altar… So when Chloe's first love and the man who broke her heart arrives in the village, try as she might, Chloe can't ignore this blast from her past. Could now be the time for her to make a wish – and dare to believe it can come true?Chocolate Shoes and Wedding BluesWhen Tansy Poole inherits a run-down shoe shop tucked away in the village of Sticklepond, ‘Cinderella’s Slippers’ is born – providing the perfect footwear to make any fairy tale wedding come true. If only everything in her personal life could be as heavenly. So when Actor Ivo Hawksley comes to Sticklepond to nurse his own broken heart, he soon realises that he and Tansy have a link in their past. Soon, they both find out how secrets shared can make a very strong bond indeed…
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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
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Source ISBN: 9780007365722, 9780007478408
Ebook Edition © March 2015 ISBN: 9780008142568 Version: 2018–07–24
TRISHA ASHLEY
Chocolate Wishes
Avon HarperCollinsPublishers 1 London Bridge Street London SE1 9GF
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.
HarperCollinsPublishers 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
Chapter One There Must Be an Angel
Chapter Three Chocolate Wishes
Chapter Seven Brief Encounters
Chapter Nine Drawing the Lines
Chapter Eleven Birthday Wishes
Chapter Twelve Desperate Dates
Chapter Thirteen Ashes of Roses
Chapter Sixteen Dead as My Love
Chapter Seventeen Written on the Cards
Chapter Twenty-two Darker Past Midnight
Chapter Twenty-six High Maintenance
Chapter Twenty-seven Pure Criollo
Chapter Twenty-eight Home Alone
Chapter Thirty-one Party Animals
Chapter Thirty-two Delivering Angels
Chapter Thirty-three Candy-Coated
Chapter Thirty-four Melting Moments
Chapter Thirty-six Behind the Scenes at the Museum
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.
That seemed pretty appropriate, because a hollow angel was what Raffy Sinclair had proved himself to be, but it meant that it was a couple of minutes before she had a hand free to reach across and snap down the off button. By then they’d moved on to Eric Clapton’s ‘Tears in Heaven’, so it was becoming obvious that the guest on
