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Rumour Has It

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Rumour Has It
Book 1 in The Cloverleigh Dating Files

In the little seaside town of Cloverleigh, gossip travels faster than the tide - and somehow, Emma Clarke has ended up at the center of it.

All she really wants is to keep her late aunt's tea shop running and pull off catering a wedding in a nearby village. But thanks to one overheard conversation, the entire town is suddenly convinced Emma's the one getting married.

And if that wasn't bad enough, a very public (and very clumsy) run-in with her grumpy next-door neighbor, Noah Bennett, has everyone certain he's the mystery groom.

Noah wants nothing to do with the town rumor mill, but now he and Emma are stuck in the middle of a wedding they didn't plan - their own. The more they try to clear things up, the messier it gets... and the harder it becomes to tell what's fake and what might just be real.

Full of small-town chaos, meddling neighbors, and a grumpy-sunshine duo you can't help but root for, Rumour Has It is the perfect start to The Cloverleigh Dating Files.All Rights Reserved

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