Table of Contents
Also by Jill Mansell
Copyright
Dedication
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Chapter 6
Chapter 7
Chapter 8
Chapter 9
Chapter 10
Chapter 11
Chapter 12
Chapter 13
Chapter 14
Chapter 15
Chapter 16
Chapter 17
Chapter 18
Chapter 19
Chapter 20
Chapter 21
Chapter 22
Chapter 23
Chapter 24
Chapter 25
Chapter 26
Chapter 27
Chapter 28
Chapter 29
Chapter 30
Chapter 31
Chapter 32
Chapter 33
Chapter 34
Chapter 35
Chapter 36
Chapter 37
Chapter 38
Chapter 39
Chapter 40
Chapter 41
Chapter 42
Chapter 43
Chapter 44
Chapter 45
Chapter 46
Chapter 47
Chapter 48
Chapter 49
Chapter 50
Chapter 51
Chapter 52
Chapter 53
Chapter 54
Chapter 55
Chapter 56
Chapter 57
About the Author
Also by Jill Mansell, available from Sourcebooks Landmark
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First published in 2009 by Headline Review, an imprint of Headline Publishing Group, London, UK
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Mansell, Jill.
[Rumour has it]
Rumor has it / Jill Mansell.
p. cm.
1. Single women—Fiction. 2. Mate selection—Fiction. 3.
City and town life—England—Fiction. I. Title. PR6063. A395R86 2010 823'. 914—dc222009046823
Printed and bound in the United States of America
VP 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1
HOW WEIRD THAT YOU could push open your front door and know in an instant that something was wrong.
Tilly stopped in the doorway, her hand fumbling for the light switch. Back from work at six o'clock on a cold Thursday evening in February, there was no reason to believe that anything should be different.
But it was; she could feel it. She could
The hall
What was going on? She gazed around the room, taking every thing—or rather the lack of everything—in. OK, they'd either been targeted by extremely picky burglars or…