Rosie McDonald wedding planner/events planner for London's classy Bonneville Hotel always aims for perfection. Rosie plans and re-plans, prepares lists upon lists, flow charts, meetings, tours of the banquet rooms, gardens, followed by cake tastings, nothing is left to chance. If rain is forecast, she orders 50 black umbrellas. She can plan a perfect ending for all her weddings but can't seem to have her own happy ending. In a three year relationship with Dominic, famous award winning food critic, her goal is to buy a flat with him and take their slow moving romance to the next level. Dom keeps secrets and when Rosie discovers the secrets are other women, she packs, leaves him and moves into the Bonneville Hotel.
Enter, handsome son of the owners of the Bonneville, Joe Douglas. Fresh from his successful business in extreme adventure in the US, he is back and living at the hotel. The consensus is that he is there to learn to manage the hotel as he is slated to work in every department. The trouble begins, starting with his introduction to Rosie. It is a prickly relationship from the first encounter and goes down hill quickly. They look at wedding planning differently, and butt heads constantly. Joe freely talks about his beliefs, that "the bride should get the wedding she wants, not the one the wedding planner wants." He is happy, laid back and always speaks his mind. Life for him, is too short and he wants to live every moment at it's fullest. Rosie is the direct opposite and the fight is on.
HONEYMOON HOTEL is a romantic romp told with wonderful descriptions of the workings within the Hotel Bonneville in preparation for the classic, lovely weddings, and the staff involved. The romance of Rosie and Joe was slow but oh so sweet! Joe is as delicious as all the sweet treats he steals at every opportunity. I found him to be adorable, lovable and a "keeper". I'm so glad Rosie thought so too. HONEYMOON HOTEL is my favorite read in a long time. Thank you, Hester Browne.
A charming novel in the vein of The Wedding Planner
featuring an ambitious and by-the-books event planner who
finds herself at odds with her new assistant, who happens
to
be the son of her boss, on the eve of the biggest wedding
of
her careerβfrom the New York Times bestselling author of
The
Runaway Princess and the Little Lady Agency series.
The Bonneville Hotel is the best-kept secret in London:
its
elegant rooms and discreet wood-paneled cocktail lounge
were
the home-away-from-home for royalty and movie stars alike
during the golden age of glamour. Recent years havenβt
been
kind, but thanks to events manager Rosie, itβs reclaiming
some of its old cachet as a wish list wedding venue. While
Rosieβs weddings are the ultimate in romance, Rosie
herself
isnβt; her focus is fixed firmly on the details, not on
the
dramas.
She lives with a professionally furious food critic and
works tirelessly toward that coveted promotion. But when
the
hotel owner appoints his eccentric son Joe to help run
Rosieβs department, sheβs suddenly butting heads with the
free spirit whose predilection for the unconventional
threatens to unravel her picture-perfect plans for the
most
elaborateβnot to mention high-profileβwedding the hotel
has
ever seen, a wedding that could make or break not only the
hotelβs reputation, but also Rosieβs career.
From the author whose books are described as βdeliciously
addictiveβ (Cosmopolitan), Honeymoon Hotel will reaffirm
your belief in happily ever after.
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