e-book: Checkout Girl Harassed by Love Struck Customer (Kindle Version)

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From the Printed Book Cover: “A quirky, warm-hearted novel about love and its many surprises. Set in a sparkling New York City peopled with wonderfully memorable characters and with a deliciously comic plot, Checkout Girl is a delight from start to finish. Carmen Estévez is set to be a bright star in modern fiction.” Helen Cross, Author Split Milk, Black Coffee Carmen Estévez Phelan of Madrid, Spain, was awarded the A Woman’s Write 2012 Grand Prize for this captivating, multi-cultural comic romance. Daughter of a Spanish father and an Irish mother, former teacher Estévez has created a colorful cast, centered around attractive, ambitious Annabel—a grocery clerk—who is repeatedly visited by mysterious admirer, Edwin—an aspiring chef. Passion is on the boil as they bumble their way towards a relationship—until Edwin spots Annabel in the arms of another. Uniting two equally befuddled young lovers, keeping their star-crossed amour simmering, Checkout Girl Harassed by Love Struck Customer enchants from Page One: For the last month Annabel has been quietly and kindly dealing with a young man who has been coming to her register on a daily basis. Edwin (she had checked his name on his debit card) has been making purchases, one at a time, every day since he first set eyes on the lovely Annabel. At first it was a Snickers bar, and when Annabel asked, as all salespeople usually do, “Anything else?” Edwin answered very softly, “Only you.”