I have a new book out today - sort of. It's releasing on Kobo today, so if epub and/or Kobo is your jam, you can pick it up now. It releases at the rest of the sites next week so you can go hit preorder.
Rafe has been using charm both in and out of work. Finding himself the only groomsman at a weather interrupted bachelor party isn't going to stop him from having fun. Felicia has made a living for herself helping out brides by posing as one of their bridesmaids. She's used to handling all sorts of unexpected hitches, but a solo groomsman who keeps showing up at all the bachelorette events is a new one for her. It doesn't matter if he's hot, Felicia's there to make the bride happy not herself. Not even if the bride decides a little matchmaking might make her happy.
1. This book is written to stand alone, but it is part of the City Complications series, so if you have read Aloha to You you will already know who Rafe's friend Seth is. In fact, you will have met Rafe too.
2. I don't always know exactly what inspired my stories, because my writer brain is often like a sticky ball, gathering up bits of things until it coalesces into something. For this one I know. I was listening to NPR's "Ask Me Another" and on that same show they had a woman who was for some time a professional bridesmaid, and a gentleman who had garnered internet fame for being the only member of his bachelor party. And I thought what if I stuck them together?
3. It is a particularly odd thing to have a book that involves travel to three different cities, and a number of non-socially distant gatherings amid a moment where essentially none of these things are really possible. I have friends trying to figure out if they should even get married right now.
4. I have watched a lot of TV shows about animal rescue. I myself have a cat from a shelter. The people who dedicate some or all of their time to animal rescue, are wonderful people who do a lot of work, and see a lot. This book contains many fictional dogs, who all survive and are happy. Let's not tell my cat that I have now written more fictional dogs than cats, mmkay?
5. This book starts in New Orleans, a city that called to me so much the first time I visited. I've been lucky enough to visit it several times since. With groups and on my own.
6. This book, in addition to DC and it's suburbs (because of course) also spends some time in New York City. New York City and New Orleans have been hard hit by both the COVID 19 pandemic, and police brutality. (DC also.) Here's hoping the world that we build going forward is better on all fronts.
7. There is a teeny Broadway reference in here. Let me know if you spot it.
Oh also, if you are playing Ripped Bodice Bingo, this works for I'm on a Boat and Secret Identity.
