Historical romance author Olive St. Claire’s life was turning out to be much stranger than fiction. She's headed to Whisper Lake to go to her wedding...plot twist: she's not going to be the bride walking down the aisle. The woman wearing white this weekend was her cousin Bridgette, who was the familial equivalent of a frenemy.
After Liv’s fiancé broke off their engagement six months ago, she had to cancel her venue, caterer, DJ, and florist. Bridgette decided to take advantage of the fact that all of those vendors had a sudden opening and booked them all for herself. She’d even purchased Liv’s wedding dress off of eBay.
Liv had planned to attend the nuptials on the solo tip but when the chance to bring an unexpected plus one presents itself, she figures, she might as well bring a date to her own wedding.
Police officer Grady Caldwell had never lived in a small town. He’d heard his older brother, who had lived in Whisper Lake for nearly two decades, talk about the tight-knit lake community’s antics but had always assumed he’d exaggerated.
After being a Whisper Lake resident for less than a month Grady now knew there was no exaggeration involved. Over the past two weeks, he’d become the target of the Needlepoint Mafia, a knitting club run by three matchmaking dons who had set their sights on setting him up. Their “meet-cutes” were starting to interfere with his job and sanity.
When his brother’s soon-to-be ex-wife proposes a bait-n-switch dating situation that takes the heat off the mafioso cupids who are firing arrows at him on the daily, he decides it’s an offer he can’t refuse.