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This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents are products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously and are not to be construed as real. Any resemblance to actual events, locales, organizations, or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.

CHRISTMAS AT THE ISLAND HOTEL . Copyright © 2020 by Jenny Colgan. All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. By payment of the required fees, you have been granted the nonexclusive, nontransferable right to access and read the text of this e-book on-screen. No part of this text may be reproduced, transmitted, downloaded, decompiled, reverse-engineered, or stored in or introduced into any information storage and retrieval system, in any form or by any means, whether electronic or mechanical, now known or hereafter invented, without the express written permission of HarperCollins e-books.

Cover design by Yeon Kim

Cover photographs © Lee Avison/Arcangel (building); © GMVozd/Getty Images (bells); © Elin Enger/Getty Images (wreaths); © Pakorn Kumruen/EyeEm/Getty Images (wreaths); © Westend61/Getty Images (ornaments)

Originally published as Christmas at the Island Hotel in the United Kingdom in 2020 by Sphere.

FIRST EDITION

Digital Edition OCTOBER 2020 ISBN: 978-0-06-291129-2

Version 08242020

Print ISBN: 978-0-06-291128-5

Print ISBN: 978-0-06-291140-7 (hardcover library edition)

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