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    Chasing Happiness: Love Always, #1
    Chasing Happiness: Love Always, #1
    Chasing Happiness: Love Always, #1
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    Chasing Happiness: Love Always, #1

    By Raine English

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    Love always wins, or so they thought.

    Zoe, Katie, and Ariana are the owners of the Rosebud, a new flower shop in quaint Lakefield, Maine. But the three childhood friends have more than a business in common. As teenagers, they made a pact to be married by twenty-five. Will these women fulfill their vow, or will they lose at love and be destined to remain single?

    This can be read as a stand-alone book.

    ˃˃˃ Love Always Series

    Book 1: Chasing Happiness

    Book 2: Cherished Memories

    Book 3: Too Good to Believe

    Book 4: Yesterday’s Promise

    Book 5: Say “Yes” to Forever

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherElusive Dreams Press
    Release dateNov 20, 2015
    ISBN9781629350172
    Chasing Happiness: Love Always, #1
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    Raine English

    Raine English is a USA Today bestselling author who writes gothic romantic suspense, paranormal, and sweet small-town contemporary romance. She began her career as a journalist, but writing romance novels was her passion. Her stories have won many awards, including finalling in the Romance Writers of America® Golden Heart® and winning the Daphne du Maurier Award. When not behind her computer, you can find her reading, usually something involving the supernatural. She lives in New England with her family and her French bulldog, Bailey.

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      Chasing Happiness - Raine English

      Chasing Happiness

      Love Always Series

      Book 1

      Raine English

      Chasing Happiness

      Love Always Series

      Book 1

      Published by Elusive Dreams Press

      Digital Edition

      Copyright 2015 © Raine English

      ISBN: 978-1-62935-017-2

      This ebook is licensed for your personal enjoyment only. All rights reserved, including the right to reproduce this book, or any portion thereof, in any form. This ebook may not be re-sold or given away to other people. If you would like to share this book with another person, please purchase an additional copy for each recipient, unless this book is a participant in a qualified lending program. Thank you for respecting the hard work of this author. To obtain permission to excerpt portions of the text, please contact the author at Raine@RaineEnglish.com.

      This is a work of fiction. All characters in this book are fictitious and figments of the author’s imagination. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.

      Edited by Linda Ingmanson

      www.RaineEnglish.com

      Chasing Happiness

      Love always wins, or so they thought…

      Zoe, Katie, and Ariana are the owners of the Rosebud, a new flower shop in quaint Lakefield, Maine. But the three childhood friends have more than a business in common. As teenagers, they made a pact to be married by twenty-five. Will these women fulfill their vow, or will they lose at love and be destined to remain single?

      Love Always Series

      Book 1: Chasing Happiness

      Book 2: Cherished Memories

      Chapter One

      We did it! Zoe Goodwin draped an arm over each of her friends’ shoulders, and the three of them stood on the sidewalk, staring at the fluorescent pink sign in the window of the flower shop. The Rosebud’s officially open for business.

      It’s about time. A huge grin lit Katie’s round face, while the wind gently fluffed her fine nut-brown hair.

      The shop looks fantastic, Ariana chimed in.

      Zoe glanced over at the gorgeous blonde’s perfect profile and couldn’t help but wonder if she’d regret joining them in their business venture. Only time would tell. But for now, Ariana Black seemed as happy as Katie and she, and, for that, Zoe was grateful. Her friend needed the serenity of Lakefield, Maine after what she’d been through while living in New York City.

      The three women entered the shop and set about putting the finishing touches to it before their first customer arrived. Ariana made sure there was plenty of paper in the fax machine, while Katie swept the floor in front of the cooler for what had to be the fifth time. She hummed a Taylor Swift song, then used the broom as a microphone and belted out the lyrics in her rich voice. As if that wasn’t enough to throw them into fits of laughter, she spun around and shook her very generous backside at them.

      Katie Dunn’s personality was as large as her plus-size frame. People were instantly drawn to her, especially men, and she had no problem discarding them just as quickly. Until she’d met Jake Patterson, that is. They planned to marry, and the Rosebud would be providing the flowers, of course.

      Zoe shook her head at Katie’s antics and walked around her so that she could reach into the cooler for an arrangement. She chose one with hot pink and ivory roses, Sweet Unique and Vendella—her favorites—and carried it to the front of the shop where the antiques were displayed, then set it down in the center of a lovely mid-Victorian mahogany dining table. In order to set them apart from other florists, they’d decided to sell more than just flowers. Zoe’s mother had been in the antique business for years, so Zoe was well versed in treasures of the past. The pieces she’d selected for the shop went perfectly with its traditional décor, ornate crown molding, and gorgeous French doors that separated the front of the store from the back, where they did the messy work of making the arrangements. A part of her would hate to see any of the antiques go, but her business side was well aware that the sale of just one could pay their bills for a month.

      She turned when the sleigh bells she’d hung from the shop’s front door jingled and was pleasantly surprised to see Dan Stevens enter the Rosebud. His powerful well-muscled body moved with easy grace.

      Hey, beautiful, he said, coming to stand in front of her. He wrapped his strong arms around her waist before giving her a long, lingering kiss.

      I didn’t expect to see you until tonight. Zoe looked up into his clear green eyes. Not that I didn’t enjoy this. She brushed her lips against his.

      He held her out at arm’s length and studied her for a moment. I can’t stand to be away from you.

      She rolled her eyes.

      I’m serious. Move in with me, Zoe.

      She drew her brows together as she frowned. You know how I feel about that. She’d been seeing Dan for nearly six months, and their relationship had progressed to the point where she hoped to receive a ring from him, but about a week ago, he’d begun pressuring her to live with him. And that was something she’d never do—at least not until after they were married. She’d always dreamed that her first time making love would be on her wedding night, and there was no way she was going to change her mind.

      Things would be so much better, he went on.

      "I didn’t know there was anything wrong with

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