To Have And To Hold: The Wedding Belles Book 1

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

First published in this Ebook edition in 2016

by HEADLINE ETERNAL

An imprint of HEADLINE PUBLISHING GROUP

Published by arrangement with Pocket Books, a division of Simon & Schuster, Inc.

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

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Table of Contents

Title Page

Copyright Page

About the Author

Praise for Lauren Layne

By Lauren Layne

About the Book

Dedication

Acknowledgments

Chapter One

Chapter Two

Chapter Three

Chapter Four

Chapter Five

Chapter Six

Chapter Seven

Chapter Eight

Chapter Nine

Chapter Ten

Chapter Eleven

Chapter Twelve

Chapter Thirteen

Chapter Fourteen

Chapter Fifteen

Chapter Sixteen

Chapter Seventeen

Chapter Eighteen

Chapter Nineteen

Chapter Twenty

Chapter Twenty-One

Chapter Twenty-Two

Chapter Twenty-Three

Chapter Twenty-Four

Chapter Twenty-Five

Chapter Twenty-Six

Chapter Twenty-Seven

Chapter Twenty-Eight

Chapter Twenty-Nine

Chapter Thirty

Chapter Thirty-One

Chapter Thirty-Two

Chapter Thirty-Three

Chapter Thirty-Four

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About the Author

Lauren Layne is the
USA Today
bestselling author of contemporary romance. Prior to becoming an author, Lauren worked in e-commerce and web-marketing. In 2011, she and her husband moved from Seattle to New York City, where Lauren decided to pursue a fulltime writing career. It took six months to get her first book deal (despite ardent assurances to her husband that it would only take three). Since then, Lauren’s gone on to multiple books including the bestselling Stiletto series, with more sexy stories on the way!

Lauren currently lives in Chicago with her husband and spoiled Pomeranian. When not writing, you’ll find her at happy hour, running at a doggedly slow pace, or trying to straighten her naturally curly hair.

Join Lauren at
www.laurenlayne.com
to get news on her latest books, or keep up to date with her on Twitter:
@_LaurenLayne
and Facebook:
www.facebook.com/LaurenLayneAuthor
.

Praise for Lauren Layne’s irresistible romance:

‘Fun, sexy, and sharp as a spike heel’ Ruthie Knox,
New York Times
bestselling author

‘I absolutely adored this outstanding story’ Sandi Lynn,
New York Times
bestselling author

‘My kind of book, sexy and witty, and the banter between the characters is off the charts. You’ll fall in love with their chemistry from page one’ Sidney Halston,
USA Today
bestselling author

‘Lauren Layne is the queen of fun and sexy all rolled into one. She knows how to write smart and hilarious characters that I want to read over and over again’ Cassie Mae, bestselling author of
Doing It For Love

‘A raw, no-holds-barred portrayal of two best friends making the choice to become lovers . . . the best I’ve ever read!’
The Romance Reviews

‘Fresh and fast-paced . . . a perfect escape/comfort read, and guaranteed to cheer a girl up when she’s feeling down’
Unquietly Me

‘Layne is one of the best authors writing today and I was reminded of that as I read this book . . . It was hot and sexy and sweet. I laughed and shrieked and cried, exactly what I want from a book’
Obsessed with Romance

By Lauren Layne

The Wedding Belles Series

From This Day Forward (e-novella)

To Have And To Hold

Oxford Series

Irresistibly Yours

I Wish You Were Mine

Standalone

Blurred Lines

About the Book

Sex and the City
meets
The Wedding Planner
in
To Have And To Hold
, the first sizzling contemporary romance in Lauren Layne’s
The Wedding Belles
series about three ambitious wedding planners who can make any bride’s dream come true . . . but their own. For fans of Jill Shalvis, Julie James and Rachel Gibson.

Discovering her fiancé is a con man moments before they exchange vows devastates LA celebrity wedding planner Brooke Baldwin. With a fresh start in New York and her first Wedding Belles bridal client, things are looking up. Until she meets the uptight businessman who’s holding the purse strings . . .

Seth Tyler wishes he could write a blank cheque and be done with his sister Maya’s wedding, but micromanaging the event is his only chance at proving that Maya’s fiancé is a liar. He needs the help of her stunning, sassy wedding planner who he finds both irritating - and undeniably tempting.

Can Seth persuade Brooke to unplan a wedding? And, more importantly, how will he convince her that the wedding she should be planning . . . is theirs?

Want some fun, fresh, flirty and very sexy rom-com? Check out the titles in the Oxford series:
Irresistibly Yours
,
Playing For Keeps
and
Someone Like You
.

Can a guy and a girl really be ‘just friends’? You won’t want to miss Lauren Layne’s sexy take on this timeless question in
Blurred Lines
.

For Anth

Acknowledgments

T
HANKS
SO MUCH TO
everyone who used their precious reading time and book dollars to meet the Wedding Belles! It’s always so much fun for an author to delve into a brand-new world with brand-new characters, and the idea for a wedding planner–centric series is one that’s been on my writer’s bucket list for a long time.

I can’t think of a better “home” for the Wedding Belles than the fantastic team at Pocket, who’ve helped see my writing dream into reality, with amazing covers, marketing support, and editing.

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