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Daphne gave a blissful sigh. “Now we’re at the very best part of being in the book business.”

“The happy ending.” Melissa said, nodding in agreement.

“Way too much kissing,” Benny grumbled. And then he brightened. “I got an idea. Let’s go play some football!”

Which they did. Right before happily ever after.

Acknowledgments

Thank you to everyone who has rallied around me with handy facts and personal expertise, especially Steve Axelrod, Jill Barnett, Christine Foutris, Ann Maxwell, Bill Phillips, John Roscich, Betty Schulte, the Windy City RWA moms, and Chris Zars. Also the incomparable Creative Fest team of Jennifer Crusie, Jennifer Greene, Cathie Linz, Lindsay Longford, and Suzette Vann. Barbara Jepson has simplified my life immeasurably. Carrie Feron continues to earn my undying gratitude with wisdom, friendship, and editorial guidance. I am hugely indebted to all the people at Morrow/Avon who do so much for me. Thanks, Ty, for lending Molly your condo, and Zach, for writing Kevin and Molly such pretty love songs. Most of all, thanks to my readers for insisting that Kevin have his own story. In order to tell it, I’ve taken a few liberties with time passage and the ages of characters associated with the Chicago Stars football team. I hope those of you who care about this sort of thing will forgive me.

Susan Elizabeth Phillips

About the Author

Susan Elizabeth Phillips soared onto the New York Times bestseller list with her 1998 smash, Dream a Little Dream, and remained there through two subsequent novels, Lady Be Good and First Lady. A former RITA Award winner and the only two-time recipient of the Romance Writers of America’s prestigious Favorite Book of the Year Award, Phillips delights fans by touching hearts as well as funny bones with her wonderfully whimsical modern fairy tales. A resident of the Chicago suburbs, she is a wife and the mother of two grown sons.

Other Books by Susan Elizabeth Phillips

OTHER BOOKS BY
SUSAN ELIZABETH PHILLIPS

First Lady

Lady Be Good

Dream a Little Dream

Nobody’s Baby but Mine

Kiss an Angel

Heaven, Texas

It Had to Be You

Credits

Jacket design and illustration by Honi Werner

Copyright

This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places and incidents either are the products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual events, locales, organizations, or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental and beyond the intent of either the author or the publisher.

THIS HEART OF MINE. Copyright © 2001 by Susan Elizabeth Phillips. All rights reserved. No part of this book may be used or reproduced in any manner whatsoever without written permission except in the case of brief quotations embodied in critical articles and reviews.

Susan Elizabeth Phillips asserts the moral right to be identified as the author of this work.

Mobipocket Reader edition v 1. April 2001 ISBN 0-06-077030-9

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