The Boy with the Board: A Short Story. Katey Lovell

The Boy with the Board: A Short Story - Katey  Lovell


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       PRAISE FOR KATEY LOVELL

       ‘Magical and sparkly short stories, highly recommended’

       Sky’s Book Corner

       ‘I’m so glad I picked this up, it’s gorgeous!’

       Rather Too Fond of Books

       ‘Swooning all the way through’

       Reviewed the Book

       ‘An absolutely wonderful debut’

       Little Northern Soul

       ‘Quirky, cute and utterly romantic’

       Bestselling author Rebecca Raisin

       ‘Sweet, romantic, perfectly formed coffee break reads. I loved them’

       Bestselling author Carmel Harrington

       The Boy with the Board

      The Meet Cute Series

      KATEY LOVELL

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      HarperImpulse an imprint of

      HarperCollinsPublishers

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      First published in Great Britain by HarperImpulse 2016

      Copyright © Katey Lovell 2016

      Cover images © Shutterstock.com

      Cover design by Books Covered

      Katey Lovell asserts the moral right to

      be identified as the author of this work

      A catalogue record for this book

      is available from the British Library

      This novel is entirely a work of fiction. The names, characters and incidents portrayed in it are the work of the author’s imagination. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events or localities is entirely coincidental.

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      Ebook Edition © May 2016 ISBN: 9780008166458

      Version 2016-05-06

      For Skye Peto, with love

      Table of Contents

       Cover

       Praise for Katey Lovell

       Title Page

       Copyright

       Dedication

       The Meet Cute Series

       The Boy with the Board

      

       Acknowledgment

      

       Coming Soon from Katey Lovell

      

       Also by Katey Lovell

      

       Katey Lovell

      

       About the Publisher

      

       About HarperImpulse

       The Meet Cute Series

       The Boy in the Bookshop

       The Boy at the Beach

       The Boy at the Bakery

       The Boy on the Bus

       The Boy with the Board

       The Boy with the Boxes

       The Boy at the BBQ

       The Boy under the Mistletoe

       The Boy and the Bridesmaid

       The Boy with the Board

      He was the most gorgeous person on the beach, hands down. No one else came close. The rubber of his wetsuit glistening under the sunlight, his long hair the stereotypically sun kissed Californian blonde, an arse that was surely too pert and round to be real – he must be the male equivalent of Beyoncé.

      As views go, this was a pretty good one. Breath-taking, in fact.

      I’d never planned to come to Avila, never thought I was the sort of girl who’d just up sticks and leave home. I’d grown up in a terraced house in Wakefield. It was nothing fancy, an ordinary small, cosy house that was extraordinary because it brimmed with the warmth of love. My Mum had been exceptionally house-proud, the type of woman that never sat still. I remember her making me


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