title: Chosen As The Frenchman's Bride
author:  Abby Green 
description: Abby Green spent her teens reading Mills &amp; Boon romances. She then spent many years working in the Film and TV industry as an Assistant Director. One day while standing outside an actor's trailer in the rain, she thought:<em>there has to be more than this.</em>So she sent off a partial to Harlequin Mills &amp; Boon. After many rewrites, they accepted her first book and an author was born. She lives in Dublin, Ireland and you can find out more here: www.abby-green.com
zlib_text: Abby Green
  
  CHOSEN AS THE
  FRENCHMAN’S BRIDE
  
  TORONTO NEW YORK LONDON
  AMSTERDAM PARIS SYDNEY
  HAMBURG
  STOCKHOLM ATHENS TOKYO MILAN
  MADRID
  PRAGUE WARSAW BUDAPEST
  AUCKLAND
  
  Contents
  Prologue
  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
  
  Coming Next Month
  For Lynn and the women upstairs…
  
  PROLOGUE
  The poolside, Hotel Lézille, 8.30pm
  HE NOTICED her as soon as she appeared in the archway between the lobby
  and the pool, his eyes drawn there as if pulled by a magnetic force. A rare
  excitement stirred his pulse. He told himself that he hadn’t come especially to
  seek her out. She seemed slightly hesitant, unsure. She wasn’t the most
  beautiful woman he’d ever seen, but she had a stunningly natural quality
  about her, which in his world was rare, compelling. In a simple black dress
  that outlined every slender curve and a generous bosom, she caught his ey