title: Strange Love: Short Stories and Twisted Tales
author:  Victoria Pearson 
description: Victoria Pearson lives behind a keyboard in rural Bedfordshire, dreaming things up and writing them down so they don't run away and get into mischief. She has four children and a dog, and can't remember where she put her car keys.
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  CAN SHE EVER PEN HER OWN LOVE STORY?
  
  Meeting Alistair Devlin, London’s most eligible bachelor, causes Victoria
  Bretton no end of problems. Masking her attraction is even more difficult than
  concealing her alter ego—playwright Valentine Lawe—not to mention the fact
  that this man’s unsettling gaze is causing her the most terrible writer’s
  block!
  
  Alistair’s not in the market for love...but he can’t help but be beguiled by
  Victoria and intrigued by the secrets she’s hiding. As they grow closer the
  lines between fact and fiction become blurred. Can she be the heroine of her
  very own happy ending?
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  “Mr Devlin—”
  
  “Alistair,” he whispered.
  
  “Mr Devlin,” Victoria repeated, closing her eyes. “I beg you to listen to me—”
  
  “I don’t want to listen,” he said, drawing close. “I want...this.”
  
  And then...he kissed her.
  
  Victoria had been kissed before; once by a fumbling youth in a childhood game
  and once by a friend in a Christmas theatrical. But she had never been kissed
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