She agreed to meet her groom for the first time...
at the altar.
That was her first mistake. Because imagine Imogeneâs shock when she comes face-to-face with Valentin Horvath, her ex-husband! According to the matchmakerâs âexpertâ advice, they are 100 percent perfect for each other. No refunds. At least their mutual attraction is still alive and kicking. But will the secrets and misconceptions that torpedoed their last marriage sink this one...or save it?
Award-winning USA TODAY bestselling author YVONNE LINDSAY has always preferred the stories in her head to the real world. Married to her blind-date sweetheart and with two adult children, she spends her days crafting the stories of her heart. In her spare time she can be found with her nose firmly in someone elseâs book.
Also by Yvonne Lindsay
Honor-Bound Groom
Stand-In Brideâs Seduction
For the Sake of the Secret Child
Arranged Marriage, Bedroom Secrets
Contract Wedding, Expectant Bride
Tangled Vows
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One
âItâs going to be okay, Mom.â Imogene hastened to reassure her mother for the thousandth time.
She had no doubt her mom remembered all too well the broken woman Imogene had been when sheâd returned from volunteering in Africa with her first marriage and all her hopes and dreams in tatters. But as sheâd told her mom several times, things were going to be completely different this time around. This marriage would be based on mutual compatibility after an intense clinical assessment by a team of relationship counselors and psychologistsâabsolutely nothing impractical about that. Sheâd done the passionate love thing. Experienced the soaring highs of love at first sight and barely made it through the devastating lows of discovering it had all been a lie. This way, at least, nothing would go wrong.
âReady?â the wedding planner asked in her perfectly calming and well-modulated voice.
Imogene smoothed a hand down her gown, the silk-and-organza creation a far cry from the borrowed cocktail dress sheâd worn to her last wedding, and nodded. âAbsolutely.â
The wedding planner gave her a wide smile, then indicated to the pianist to change his music for the brideâs entrance. Imogene hesitated at the door. Then, taking her motherâs hand, she began to walk slowly and confidently toward the man she was going to build a future and create a much-longed-for family with. A serene smile wreathed her face as she briefly made eye contact with her friends and the sprinkling of extended family whoâd made the trip to the West Coast from New York. The formality of signing the license application could be done separately here in Washington, which kept to the Match Made in Marriage rules of meeting at the altar. This was the right thing for an old-fashioned girl with old-fashioned values to do, she assured herself. This time she wasnât leaving anything to chance. This time, she was getting it right.