Where choice meets chance, there lies happily ever after...
**A bride, her Groomzilla, and their guests travel along the southern Jersey shore, navigating the rocky road to romance as they each seek their own version of happily ever after, Love Actually-style.
You're cordially invited to Delaney and Dalton's Cape May wedding...if it happens.
Delaney is a successful criminal attorney who leaves nothing to chance. All she wanted was a simple seaside wedding to her childhood sweetheart, Dalton. But as wedding countdown begins, their love is put to the test as a series of events threatens their big day. Even Mother Nature's RSVP of a tempestuous plus-one can't match the turmoil of an unbridled Groomzilla, whose life-altering secret may veer this love story to Happily Never After before they can say, "I Don't".
However, Delaney isn't the only one whose destiny is uncertain.
A seashell found in the pocket of an old hoodie forces maid of honor and DC lobbyist Kate to question her choices in life and love. Especially after her ex, who she last saw driving off in a dilapidated VW van, has now been touted in Men's Monthly magazine as America's hottest surfer-preneur and newly minted millionaire. As Kate rides the gnarly waves of regret, an accidental phone switch has her dialed into someone totally new-and completely unexpected.
Free-spirited bartender Cleo is "just fine" with the surface-level, friends-with-benefits situation she has with her hot lawyer. But as her roommates move forward with their Adult Life Plans, Cleo decides slinging drinks, while fun, is getting in the way of pursuing her creative talents as an artist. Enter her best friend's plus-one, who challenges her beliefs about her troubled past, and invites her into the scary future-whether she's ready to face it or not.
Set between the courtrooms of Philadelphia and the sparkling beaches of the Jersey Cape, this laugh-out-loud, swoony beach read is all about choice and chance, love and loss, sunsets and cheesesteaks. With familiar romance tropes of friends to lovers, unexpected meet-cutes, and opposites attract, you're destined to fall in love with this ensemble cast. You may even find yourself exploring your own beliefs about life, love, and destiny.
So save the date, grab a drink, and get ready to Chicken Dance-you never know what the night, and destiny, may have in store.