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‘The perfect balance of romcom and drama!’ GRAZIAShe kissed the groom. She’s not the bride…Edie thought she’d found The One…until he told her he was marrying someone else. And on the day of his wedding, when he kisses her, life really does go pear-shaped…Labelled as a home-wrecker and office outcast, whenher boss offers her the chance to get out of town Ediejumps at it, even though moving back in with her eccentricfather and prickly sister isn’t exactly the escape she needs.When her work throws her into the path of rising starand heartthrob Elliot, Edie is expecting a highly strungdiva. But as their unexpected friendship develops,Elliot isn’t the only one in the spotlight…Who’s that girl? Edie is ready to find out.

A present-day love story which springs from a tragic wartime romance …It is the 1990s. Cassie Johns is a young, lovely writer on the threshold of success after a less-than-silver-spooned girlhood. Driving through the glorious countryside to a fancy-dress party in the Vale of Boland, she gives a lift to a mysteriously attractive young man wearing the uniform of an RAF pilot: ready for the party Cassie assumes. But in the evening there is no sign of the airman.Cassie – hitherto rational, sceptical, a woman of her times – becomes obsessed by Jack Hunter, a pilot whose plane crashed in 1944, but whose long-ago love for a girl at Deer’s Leap makes him unable to rest in peace. Cassie’s love for the dead hero takes her into an unknown war-torn past, where old passion burns and becomes entwined with new.