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    Meet Me After Work
    Meet Me After Work
    Meet Me After Work
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    Meet Me After Work

    By Carrie Wexford

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    A special night on Melrose Avenue…

    Breanne hopes that her boyfriend will propose to her on their one-year anniversary.  But will their relationship survive dinner at his family’s West Hollywood restaurant?

    A whimsical short story by contemporary fiction author Carrie Wexford.

    Length: 16 pages.


     

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherCarrie Wexford
    Release dateOct 29, 2014
    ISBN9781501495229
    Meet Me After Work
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    Carrie Wexford

    An L.A. native, Carrie Wexford is an author of contemporary and historical fiction.  Her recently published work includes Meet Me After Work, the story of a successful career woman waiting for a marriage proposal, Fab or Flab, the adventures of an actress struggling to make a comeback, and Wolves Behind You, a modern classic suspense thriller about West Coast Mafia call girls.  Carrie’s current project is an historical novel about a young actress in 1920s Los Angeles. Visit Carrie’s blog for new book releases and promotions: http://carriewexford.blogspot.com Follow her on Twitter @CarrieWexford and on Facebook www.facebook.com/carrie.wexford    

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      Meet Me After Work - Carrie Wexford

      This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, businesses, places, events, and incidents are the products of the author’s imagination or are used in a fictitious manner. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, or actual businesses, places, events, or incidents is purely coincidental.

      Copyright © 2014 by Carrie Wexford.

      All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, distributed, or transmitted in any form or by any means, including photocopying, recording, or other electronic or mechanical methods, without the prior written permission of the publisher, except in the case of brief quotations embodied in critical reviews.

      Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

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      Wexford, Carrie.

      Meet Me After Work / Carrie Wexford

      1. Romantic Suspense – Fiction  1. Title

      TXu 1-945-155  2014

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      Printed in the United States of America

      If he hasn’t proposed by now, he never will.

      Maybe tonight’s the night.  Bree checked her mascara in her Camaro’s rearview mirror.

      I hope so, her best friend sighed into her ear.  Engineers don’t grow on trees.

      Wish me luck.  Bree disconnected the call, slid her cell phone into her tiny monogrammed clutch, opened

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