In this first book of a four-part series called The
Bridesmaids Chronicles, we meet Sydney Spinelli, the
bride's sister. Sydney, an accountant, is levelheaded and
responsible -- the "smart" sister. Julia, the "pretty"
sister and the bride, is flighty and irresponsible and has
been banished to Texas to run one of their father's chains
of seedy motels to prove herself. Sydney has been called
home to track down her father's bookkeeper who, after
embezzling money for 30 years, has taken off for parts
unknown with Marv's hard and illegally earned money.
Hard at work trying to make sense of her father's cooked
books, Sydney is forced to drop everything and hightail it
to Texas after receiving an e-mail announcement of her
sister's engagement. She must talk some sense into that
girl; after all, how can it be real love when she's only
known the guy for a few months!
Alex Kimball has returned to his Texas hometown to find
that the world as he knows it has been turned upside down.
His uncle, a lawyer with a thriving practice, has chucked
it all to become an emu farmer, and his aunt won't allow
the poor birds to be killed on her watch. What breaks
Alex's heart is that his beloved mother, caught in the
throes of early-onset Alzheimer's, barely recognizes him.
Alex has enough on his plate helping his uncle market his
emu-based face creams and hot sauces, as well as trying to
keep his mother from taking her clothes off in public.
Sydney is driving Julia crazy, so Julia's fiancé, Roman,
who's Alex's best friend, begs Alex to keep Sydney
distracted. At first, he concedes because he owes his
friend a favor, but he's quickly drawn to Sydney's honesty
and vulnerability, and yes, even her bossiness. Things take
a romantic turn, until Sydney finds out that all their fun
is simply to keep her out of the way. Will Alex be able to
convince her that the time they spent together was his
choice, not duty? Will Sydney learn to trust and open
herself up to love?
FIRST DATE is a fun, quick read, and I'm looking forward to
the other installments in this series -- FIRST KISS by
Kylie Adams (July), FIRST DANCE by Karen
Kendall (August) and FIRST LOVE by Julie Kenner
(September) -- to see what befalls Julia and her other
bridesmaids.
Born meddler and big sister Julia is so worried about her
sister’s impromptu wedding that she’ll stop at nothing to
derail it. When she unexpectedly falls in love with the
tall, dark and Texan best man, she has no idea that he’s
been asked to distract her . . .
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