Alexandra Butler is a self-sufficient woman. After her husband left her, she went to college and worked hard to make her interior design business successful. Her business in Piper Cove is thriving, and now her father has asked her to help with her sister Lynn's wedding. Alex recruits her best friends, the Bosom Buddies - Jan, Ellen, and Sue Ann to help with the wedding plans. As they are discussing the preliminary details, Josh Turner walks in. He hasn't been seen in Piper Cove in sixteen years since he left Alex behind to pursue his dream. At the sight of him, Alex loses all concentration. She is not sure how she feels about his presence at this particular time, but she has a more important matter to attend to. She is determined to forget about Josh, but she keeps running into him. Will Josh break her heart again? Will she be able to pull off the wedding and make her family proud?
Josh Turner left Piper Cove to become a guitarist for a band. He was good, and made a lot of money. Unfortunately, an accident left him unable to play the guitar; however, the accident made him turn his life around. He now is a man of God and wants to right some of the wrongs in his life, and that means facing the woman he left behind. He could not believe the way God brought him back to his hometown. He returns to Piper Cove to be the best man in a wedding, the wedding for Alex's sister, Lynn. Alex's father, B.J. has never liked him, and Josh has to squash the urge to rub his success in B.J.'s face. He knows that no amount of success will change the fact that he hurt B.J.'s little girl. Once he sees Alex, he knows that she is no longer the same woman that he left behind. Will he be able to convince her that he has changed? Will they be able to have a second chance at love?
Linda Windsor has written an uplifting romance. Her characters are believable and far from perfect. Alex is a woman who likes to be in control, but she cannot seem to trust herself when she is around Josh. Josh cannot believe how much he is in love with Alex, but he knows that he has to go slow. Each has to learn to rely on God to give them the strength they need to be together. The Bosom Buddies are a wonderful group of friends, but they can also be a bit mischievous. They provide a great bit of fun. Ellen, Jan, and Sue Ann each have their own stories coming out, and I cannot wait to read about the men who take their lives by storm. WEDDING BELL BLUES is a fantastic romance that proves that sometimes there is a second chance for love.
Wedding Bell Blues tells the delightful story of four best friends who have returned to their small hometown on the eastern shore of Maryland, Piper Cove.
Alex Butler is a successful home decorator who hopes she has finally gotten her life together. But when Josh Turner, the man who ran away and broke her heart sixteen years ago, returns to Piper Cove to be the best man in her sister's wedding, Alex can't escape the butterflies in her stomach. But Alex has no time for distractions, her family has enlisted her to make this the wedding of the century. To pull the event off, she pools the talents of her three best friends - Jan, who creates desserts to-die-for will help with the cake and catering, tomboy Ellen, who works at a landscaping business will handle the flowers and decorations, and Sue Anne, who can . . . well, Suzie Q can give Alex a much-needed reality check in the course of the wedding planning chaos.
But fate won't be stopped in this small town as Alex and Josh keep running into each other at every turn. When sparks fly, Alex soon finds herself caught in a paralyzing battle of the heart between her old-fashioned Southern father, who fiercely resents Josh for breaking his little girl's heart, and her feelings for the one man she ever truly loved.
As the wedding approaches, the Butler family faces a threat to their reputation that will shake this Chesapeake clan to their very core. In the midst of it all, can Alex and Josh resist the many forces that seem to be drawing them together?
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