Best Man for the Bridesmaid
Always the bridesmaid…Planning her sister's Italian wedding only reminds Jules Lane how far away she is from finding her own true love. And worse, she’s doing it alongside the brooding, mouth-wateringly handsome best man, Stefano DeFiore!Maybe the bride?Having seen the destructive power of love, Stefano has no time for weddings, but Jules’s smile is captivating! Making her feel like the most beautiful woman in the world is one thing, but can he give this blushing bridesmaid a happily-ever-after of her own?
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THE DeFIORE BROTHERS
A recipe for dating DeFiore men â¦
Take two Italian brothers with a pinch of playboy charm
Add two American sisters with a liberal dash of feistiness
Simmer under warm Italian skies until perfectly combined
Serve with lashings of love.
To start: The Playboy of Rome
Dante DeFiore is passionate about life, women, and the tasty Italian food he creates. And with the arrival of feisty American TV star Lizzie Addler he finds her almost too tempting to resist! As the temperature soars in the kitchen the passion between Lizzie and Dante simmers until they reach boiling point.
Has this Italian playboy finally met his match?
The main: Best Man for the Bridesmaid
Stefano DeFiore is proud and reservedâhe likes the quiet life. So planning a wedding for his celebrity chef brother is his idea of hell. But when bold and colourful Jules Lane enters his worldâchief bridesmaid and sister to the brideâStefano decides to take his best man duties seriously ⦠including doing all he can to make Julesâs time in Italy simply heaven.
To finish: happily ever after?
Award-winning author JENNIFER FAYE pens fun, heart-warming romances. Jennifer has won the RT Book Reviews Reviewersâ Choice Award, is a TOP PICK author, and has been nominated for numerous awards. Now living her dream, she resides with her patient husband, one amazing daughter (the other remarkable daughter is off chasing her own dreams) and two spoiled cats. Sheâd love to hear from you via her website: JenniferFaye.com.
For Linda
To an amazing lady who has a heart as big as Texas. Thanks for your guidance and support over the years. This one is for you!
Contents
ALWAYS A BRIDESMAID...
Jules Lane lifted her chin and smiled broadly.
Her steps grew quicker as she made her way past the other departing passengers. At last she was in Rome. Rome, Italy, to be exact. She continued to grin and resisted the urge to pinch herself just to make sure this wasnât a dream.
On the other hand, this wasnât exactly a vacation. She was here for an important jobâto help plan her foster sisterâs wedding. This wouldnât be Julesâs first time down the aisle. Sheâd been a bridesmaid more times than she could count on one hand.
However, this time around she had the privilege of being the maid of honor. It was a role she eagerly anticipated. She liked to take chargeâto provide order to chaos. She wasnât a closet romantic. She didnât dream about finding Prince Charming. She didnât fantasize about her âbig day.â But she did have a thing for pretty dresses and cakeâcake was definitely her weakness.
Actually now that she thought about it, Lizzie, her foster sister, hadnât been into romance, either...at least not until sheâd flown here three months ago for a television showâa reality segment about cooking. Cupid sure seemed to have hit the mark with Lizzie and Dante.
For most of Julesâs life, Lizzie had been the keeper of her secrets, her protector and her only family. Jules loved her with all her heart. But that security came with a steep price tag for both of themâlearning at an early age that they only had each other to lean on.
Now it was time for a changeâif only Jules could find a way to tell Lizzie her news.
Jules sighed as she made her way through the Leonardo da Vinci terminal. Sheâd find the right time. She just had to have patience.
The strap of her carry-on dug into her shoulder, and she struggled to adjust it. The black-and-white cloth bag was weighted down with a wedding planner, a big bag of sour candies and plenty of bridal magazines with dog-eared pages and sticky notes. She had everything necessary to plan the perfect weddingâexcept for one very important but necessary ingredient: caffeine. But no worriesâLizzie had been raving about the delicious coffee Rome had to offer.
Considering no details about the wedding had been tacked down, there would be long conversations over this now-infamous coffee. First, they had to nail down a wedding date. Jules was thinking a spring wedding next year. Itâd be perfect as Lizzie had mentioned something about an Italian vineyard as the backdrop. Talk about some amazing photos.
This wedding-planning stuff shouldnât be too hard. After all, Jules had most of it memorized by this point. Now sheâd be able to put all of that knowledge to good use.
Boisterous voices filled the terminal as friends greeted each other. An American family called frantically for their son, who stood ten steps away checking out the cell phones that a beautiful woman with long dark hair and a brilliant smile was eager to show the teenager. Jules took it all in as she strode through the congested concourse, following the signs to the baggage claim.
