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Kate Stayman-London

First published in Great Britain in 2020 by Two Roads

An Imprint of John Murray Press

An Hachette UK company

Copyright © Kate Stayman-London 2020

The right of Kate Stayman-London to be identified as the Author of the Work has been asserted by her in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988.

All rights reserved.

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All characters in this publication are fictitious and any resemblance to real persons, living or dead, is purely coincidental.

A CIP catalogue record for this title is available from the British Library

Paperback ISBN 978 1 529 34730 2

Trade Paperback ISBN 978 1 529 34731 9

eBook ISBN 978 1 529 34728 9

Audio Digital Download ISBN 9781529347296

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For Dede, who thinks it wouldn’t kill the women on The Bachelor to wear pants to a cocktail party once in a while.

Thanks for choosing Dad and me to be your family.

But love is blind, and lovers cannot see

The pretty follies that themselves commit.

—WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

We’ve all been dumped. We’ve all fallen for the wrong guy or girl.

We’ve all made mistakes. But we all want that thing at the end.

—CHRIS HARRISON