From one proposal...to another!
Laurel Sommersâs world crumbled when she discovered her fatherâs other family. Now sheâs been roped into organizing her famous half sisterâs wedding...
Plus, Laurelâs ex-fiancé is invited. So when the groomâs gorgeous brother proposes he play her convenient boyfriend, she agrees! Stuntman Dan Blackâs relationships are like the roles he steps intoâtemporary. But itâs soon clear his and Laurelâs chemistry is here to stay, and Dan starts considering a more permanent proposal...
Wedding of the Year
Saying âI doâ in the spotlight!
Eloise Miller and Laurel Sommers have their lives turned upside down by Melissa Sommersâs celebrity wedding.
With Eloise promoted to maid of honour, and Laurelâs wedding planning skills pushed to their very limits, the last thing these two need is for the best man and the groomâs brother to interveneâ¦
But as the media descends the headlines get more scandalous. Can Eloise and Laurel pull off the wedding of the year without a hitch?
Find out in...
Slow Dance with the Best Man
Proposal for the Wedding Planner
You wonât want to miss this sparkling duet
from Sophie Pembroke!
CHAPTER ONE
LAUREL SOMMERS STEPPED back from the road as a London taxi sped past through the puddle at the edge of the kerb, splashing icy water over her feet, and decided this was all her fatherâs fault, really.
Well, the fact that she was stuck in London, waiting in the freezing cold for a car to take her back to where she should beâMorwen Hall, the gothic stately home turned five-star hotel in the countryside an hour and a halfâs drive out of the cityâwas clearly Melissaâs fault. But if their father hadnât wanted to have his cake and eat it for their entire childhoods then her half-sister probably wouldnât hate her enough to make her life this miserable.
Sighing, Laurel clasped the bag holding the last-minute replacement wedding favours that Melissa had insisted she collect that afternoon closer to her body as a stream of cars continued to rush past. It was three days after Christmas and the sales were in full swing. London was caught in that strange sense of anticipation that filled the space between December the twenty-fifth and New Yearâs Eveâfull of possibilities for the year ahead and the lives that might be lived in it.
Any other year Laurel would be as caught up in that sense of opportunity as anyone. She usually used these last few days of the year to reflect on the year just gone and plan her year ahead. Plan how to be better, to achieve more, how to succeed at last. To be enough.
Just last year sheâd plotted out her schedule for starting her own business organising weddings. Sheâd been a wedding planner at a popular company for five years, and had felt with quiet optimism that it was time to go it aloneâespecially since sheâd been expecting to be organising her own wedding, and Benjamin had always said he liked a woman with ambition.
So sheâd planned, sheâd organised, and sheâd done itâshe had the business cards to prove it. Laurelâs Weddings was up and running. And, even if she wasnât planning her own wedding, she did have her first celebrity client on the books...which was why this year that optimism would have to wait until January the first.
All she had to do was make it through her half-sisterâs New Yearâs Eve wedding without anything going terribly wrong and she would be golden. Melissa was big news in Hollywood right nowâpresumably because she was a lot nicer to directors than she was to wedding plannersâand her wedding was being covered in one of those glossy magazines Laurel only ever had time to read at the hairdresserâs. If this went well her business would boom and she could stop worrying about exactly how she was going to earn enough to pay back the small business loan sheâd only just qualified for.
She might not have the husband sheâd planned on, and she might not be a Hollywood star like Melissa, but once her business went global no one would be able to say she wasnât good enough.
But of course that meant rushing around, catering to Melissaâs every whimâeven when that whim meant a last-minute trip back to the capital to replace the favours theyâd spent two weeks deciding on because they were âan embarrassmentâ all of a sudden.