Megan Ryder | Something Borrowed, Someone new?

I’m so excited to be back here on the Fresh Fiction to chat about my newest release, the second book in the Lone Star Match series, SOMETHING BORROWED. This series is about a matchmaking bride who desperately wants her bridesmaids to be as happy as she is so she sets up a destination wedding and reunites her bridesmaids with the ones who got away. Unfortunately, no one else really wants to be reunited…or so they think.

I loved these characters for so many reasons. Brigid is a type-A personality,
trying to please everyone and be the person everyone else wants her to be. The
problem is - she has no idea who SHE wants to be. She cares deeply for Grady,
could probably even love him, but refuses to see it because he doesn't fit into
the definition she has been given her whole life. Yet, he is the one man who
loves her exactly as she is and with whom she can be herself. But he also sees
deep inside to her insecurities so she can't hide from him and that's pretty
darn scary for Brigid.

Grady has a lot of baggage but is remarkably well-adjusted (if I do say so
myself). His older brother is Matthew, the groom and they were very close when
they were young. When their parents divorced, the boys were split, with Matthew
going to live with his mom and Grady didn't see his mom (or Matthew) for a very
long time. His mother was more interested in appearances and status than her
family and people, and Grady was scarred by that. Now, he's in love with someone
who seems to have the same focus - Brigid focused on her job, climbing the
company ladder - but he sees to her fears deep inside and still wants to help
her, to rescue her. But is he enough and can he hang on long enough for her to
realize that he is exactly what he needs?

This was a difficult book because I flipped the characters a bit. We're used to
seeing an unlikable hero, who's more focused on work, his own life, a bit
selfish even. Brigid isn't selfish; she's terrified to let her family down and
has been on the hamster wheel so long, she has no idea what else to do. So, she
protects herself the only ways he can. Grady, for his part, is a nice guy and
knows what he wants and he wants Brigid. The question is … will Brigid figure
out in time that Grady is exactly the type of guy she needs in her life before
she loses him forever?

Weddings are so much fun and being a bridesmaid can be stressful and exciting.
Add onto that a matchmaking bride and you have a recipe for excitement…or
disaster! What are your best wedding stories or bridesmaids stories? Have you
ever been set up at a wedding?