Kate may not be madly in love with Harold, but his organized life appeals to her, even though he seems to need Viagra in the bedroom. She isn't worried about planning their small civil ceremony and hasn't even picked out her wedding suit yet. She's pleased that after the wedding, her life will gain some stability and normalcy, features that Kate missed out on while growing up on a commune with her hippie parents.

Any hope of normalcy evaporates while Kate is working at an art exhibition in Central Park. She's innocently fantasizing about a mounted police officer when he gallops over and announces that she's his destiny. Kate is incredulous and defensive as she listens to Tony Petrocelli's sob story about how his grandmother made a prediction from reading tea leaves that Tony would meet a blonde woman with green eyes next to the Madonna in Central Park. Kate can't deny that she seems to fit the prediction, but she's certain that Tony is not in her destiny, so she flashes her engagement ring and sends him on his way.

Harold seems to always be out of town on business, and an argument with him leads Kate to rebelliously accept a dinner invitation to meet Tony's grandmother. The dinner date is supposed to help prove that this crazy prediction of destiny is completely false, but Kate and Tony share an undeniable attraction. Even though Kate doesn't believe in fate, when Harold practically tells her to have an affair before the wedding, she can't believe what she's hearing. Perhaps she should see what destiny has to offer.

I thoroughly enjoyed this lighthearted story and the engaging main characters in this romance. Tony's meddling, restaurant-owning big Italian family is a lovable stereotype, but in this book, they're endearing individuals who defied my expectations. The predictions about destiny may be viewed as silly and superfluous by non-believers, but the great respect that the Petrocelli family has for their matriarch means that her predictions are not ignored. After reading this romantic fairy-tale, you'll want to give your tea leaves a swirl to see what the future has in store for you.