Random House Publishing Group
Featuring: Jaclyn Wilde; Carrie Edwards; Detective Eric Wilder
384 pages ISBN: 0345506901 EAN: 9780345506900 Paperback Add to Wish List
Jaclyn Wilde is an events planner, but her company Premier
usually ends up planning weddings. Her upcoming week
promises to be fraught with stress, as they have six
weddings in five days. Her mother Madelyn (a partner in the
company) is responsible for these bookings, but no one could
have anticipated that they'd also be dealing with Carrie
Edwards during all of this.
Carrie is a bridezilla of epic proportions. Her maid of
honor has already quit after a public argument, and now
Carrie wants to change both the designer flowers and the
bridesmaids gowns -- after the bridesmaids have already paid
for the first gown and the wedding is mere weeks away.
After one fateful meeting with Jaclyn and some of the chosen
vendors, Carrie ends up slapping Jaclyn, firing Premier, and
threatening to fire some of the vendors. Later that day,
Carrie's dead body is discovered in the Premier parking lot.
Though there are plenty of suspects, Jaclyn finds herself at
the top of the list. Detective Eric Wilder finds
himself investigating the case despite having had a one-night
stand with Jaclyn only the night before. Understandably,
she's not happy with the turn their possible romance has
taken, but as he's playing everything by the book, he can't
explain that he's doing everything possible to clear her
name as quickly as possible.
While the investigation moves forward, Jaclyn tries to focus
on her job, but this proves difficult when it becomes clear
that the person who killed Carrie has shifted their focus
onto her. An attempt is made on Jaclyn's life, and Eric
decides that he must split his time between investigating
the murder and protecting the suspect-turned-victim. Is
this the catalyst the couple needs for the romance to be
rekindled?
The chemistry between Jaclyn and Eric was very clear, and it
was easy to root for them as a couple. While Jaclyn clearly
had baggage from her life, it wasn't so heavy that it
dragged the plot down or made the reader wonder why Eric was
sticking around. Reading about the life of a events/wedding
planner was equally fun, and the details weren't so tedious
that the suspense portion of the book got lost. And the
suspense in the book was just right. Although there were
many suspects to choose from, the author didn't overplay her
hand as far as a red herring character. This was a great
suspenseful romance book, and I zipped through it quite quickly!
Jaclyn Wilde is a wedding planner who loves her job—usually.
But helping Carrie Edwards with her Big Day has been an
unrelenting nightmare. Carrie is a bridezilla of mythic
nastiness, a diva whose tantrums are just about as crazy as
her demands. But the unpleasant task at hand turns seriously
criminal when Carrie is brutally murdered and everyone
involved with the ceremony is accusing one another of doing
the deed.The problem is, most everyone—from the cake maker
and the florist to the wedding-gown retailer and the
bridesmaids’ dressmaker—had his or her own reason for
wanting the bride dead, including Jaclyn. And while those
who felt Carrie’s wrath are now smiling at her demise,
Jaclyn refuses to celebrate tragedy, especially since she
finds herself in the shadow of suspicion.Assigned to the
case, Detective Eric Wilder finds that there’s too much
evidence pointing toward too many suspects. Compounding his
problems is Jaclyn, with whom he shared one deeply
passionate night before Carrie’s death. Being a prime
suspect means that Jaclyn is hands-off just when Eric would
rather be hands-on. As the heat intensifies between Eric and
Jaclyn, a cold-blooded murderer moves dangerously close. And
this time the target is not a bride but one particularly
irresistible wedding planner, unaware of a killer’s vow.From
the Hardcover edition.
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