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Автор Джил Мансел

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

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Copyright © 2010 by Jill Mansell

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Cover design by Dawn Pope

Cover illustration by Nina Chakrabarti

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The characters and events portrayed in this book are fictitious or are used ficti tiously. Any similarity to real persons, living or dead, is purely coincidental and not intended by the author.

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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—dc22

2009046823

Printed and bound in the United States of America

VP 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1

To Dad, with love.

Chapter 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 tell.

    Flick went the light switch, on came the light. So much for spooky sixth sense; the reason opening the door had felt different was because the hall carpet had gone.

    The hall carpet? Had Gavin spilled something on it? Mystified, her heels clacking on the bare floorboards, Tilly headed for the living room.

    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…