title: A Cup of Comfort for Writers: Inspirational Stories That Celebrate the Literary Life
author: Colleen Sell
description: Colleen Sell (Eugene, OR) is the editor of more than sixty published books, including many titles in the Cup of Comfort series. She has been an author, ghost writer, magazine editor, journalist, columnist, essayist, and copy writer.
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  A Reluctant Rake  
  
  Copyright © 2013 by Jane Charles
  
  Cover Design by Lily Smith  
  
  Night Shift Publishing
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  Smashwords Edition
  
  This book is a work of fiction. Names, characters, locations and events are
  either a product of the author’s imagination, fictitious or used fictitiously.
  Any resemblance to any event, locale or person, living or dead, is purely
  coincidental.
  
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  Amy and Marc – two great friends who
  
  enjoy their own incredible romance every day
  
  (and brandy slushes whe