by Lovett, Jo
She turned to look at him and then nodded slowly. It definitely felt like it was time.
‘I would,’ she said. Dan smiled at her and her warm, fuzzy feeling grew. ‘In fact,’ she said, ‘I have a big question for you. I was thinking we could go for a reprise of Vegas. But for real this time. And maybe not actually in Vegas, because it would be lovely for all our family and friends to be there.’
‘Evie Green, are you asking me to marry you?’ His grin was gorgeous, and face-splitting.
‘Dan Marshall, yes I am.’ She was grinning like nobody’s business herself now, because he was clearly going to say yes.
‘I’d love to.’ He leaned his head towards hers and they shared a long, lingering kiss, before Dan drew back. ‘While we’re asking big questions, I’m also wondering if you fancy trying to give Katie a little sister or brother in the next year or two.’
Evie was going to explode with warmth and fuzziness now. ‘Yes, I actually would.’ She squeezed his thigh and snuggled further against him.
‘Imagine what we’d have thought all those years ago when we made that pact if we could have seen ourselves now on this bench,’ Dan said.
‘We’d have thought we were old. When I was twenty-two, I thought thirty was old.’
‘I love you,’ Dan said. ‘Pretty sure I always did, even then.’
‘Me too.’
And then they kissed and kissed again under the mistletoe.
* * *
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The House Swap
He needs an escape. She needs an adventure.
So why not swap lives?
When Cassie and James find each other on a home swap website, it feels meant to be. City hotshot James needs a bolthole after a relationship goes sour and Cassie needs to leave the comfort of her little island to research her new book.
Soon, James is living in Cassie’s cute but ramshackle house off the coast of Maine, and Cassie’s living in James’s super smart London penthouse. It’s the perfect solution.
Except it turns out it’s difficult to switch homes without getting involved in each other’s lives. Cassie’s unimpressed when James’s ex turns up, and James is furious when he discovers that he’s going to have to help organise Cassie’s neighbour’s eightieth birthday party.
But as the insults fly, so do the sparks, and when the time finally comes to swap back, Cassie and James find they aren’t ready to give each other up – until a shocking discovery brings the pair crashing back to reality and forces them to decide what life they really want.
An utterly heart-warming love story that will make you laugh and cry, fans of One Day in December, The Hating Game and The Flatshare will fall head over heels for The House Swap.
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Books by Jo Lovett
The Mistletoe Pact
The House Swap
The First Time We Met
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A Letter from Jo
Thank you so much for reading The Mistletoe Pact. I really hope that you enjoyed it!
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I loved writing Evie and Dan’s story.
I had a lot of fun with the whole ‘Did one or both of them actually mean it?’ idea of a fallback pact, and how that might play out over the years as people mature and develop, maybe with a little help from a surprise Vegas wedding…
I also really enjoyed spending time with my characters in London and the Cotswolds, both places that I know and love.
And I love Christmas, so I’ve been very happy to have an excuse to immerse myself even more than usual in all things festive!
I hope the story made you smile or laugh, and that you loved Evie, Dan and their friends and families as much as I did!
If you enjoyed the story, I would be so pleased if you could leave a short review. I’d love to hear what you think.
Thank you for reading.
Love, Jo xx
The First Time We Met
What if you met The One on his wedding day?
Izzy doesn’t believe in love at first sight, but when Sam walks into the cafe where she works one cold December morning, she knows without a doubt that he’s The One. Too bad Sam’s getting married. Today.
Nearly a year later, Izzy still can’t stop thinking about Sam, the one that got away, but she knows it’s time to move on: he’s a married man and probably wouldn’t recognise her if he passed her on the street.
But Sam has never forgotten Izzy, the funny, gorgeous woman who asked him out on his wedding day. If the timing had only been better, he knows they could have had something wonderful.
When Izzy and Sam’s paths finally cross again, everything has changed. But with the Atlantic Ocean and decades of baggage between them, they are about to find out whether some obstacles are too big for even true love to overcome.
An unforgettable love story about what happens when the stars finally align. Fans of One Day in December, The Day We Met and Jojo Moyes will fall head over heels for The First Time We Met.
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Acknowledgements
Thank you so much to the wonderful team at Bookouture. I owe huge thanks to Lucy Dauman, who is unfailingly lovely and makes incredibly insightful comments. Thank you also to Celine Kelly, who is also extremely lovely and whose comments also always make perfect sense. And thank you so much as well to Jennifer Hunt, Rhianna Louise, Donna Hillyer, Becca Allen, Sarah Hardy, Kim Nash and all the in-house team for all your amazing input – it’s so much appreciated.
Bookouture is often described as a family, and it includes many hugely supportive authors, one of whom is Kristen Bailey, who I need to thank for a lot of fab advice, support and parenting chat!
Big thanks to many of my friends but in particular Dave MacLennan and Emma Kipps for answering a lot of (stupid) questions about doctors – any mistakes are very much mine.
And thank you as always to my family, including my sister Liz, who is an amazing friend. My husband, Charlie, is also an amazing support (and I think genuinely likes my rom coms!). And my children have been wonderful as I’ve written this book – in and out of lockdown and self-isolation, without too much fighting! Sometimes they argue all day, and other times they say truly gorgeous things – a couple of days ago my (usually boisterous) eleven-year-old gave me a big hug and told me that he was very proud of me for being an author – so cute. Thank you! (And sorry that you’re all still eating too much pasta when I’m busy writing.)
We – both author and publisher – hope you enjoyed this book. We believe that you can become a reader at any time in your life, but we’d love your help to give the next generation a head start.
Did you know that 9% of children don’t have a book of their own in their home, rising to 13% in disadvantaged families*? We’d like to try to change that by asking you to consider the role you could play in helping to build readers of the future.
We’d love you to get involved by sharing, borrowing, reading, buying or talking about a book with a child in your life and spreading the love of reading. We want to make sure the next generation continues to have access to books, wherever they come from.
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Published by Bookouture in 2021
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