And when Alex enlists the help of Carolyn, the editor of the local newspaper, in finding a photographer for the article’s photo shoot, Alex struggles with the deepening, tender relationship that blossoms between them as well. While home, Alex plans to profile Juliette Sprigg, an Eastern Shore restaurant owner and celebrity chef in the making who Alex secretly dated in high school. What the celebration really needs now is a monsoon to help stir up all the long-held secrets, simmering discontent, and hidden agendas.Īll Tiny wanted was to get married, but if she can make it through this squall of a wedding, she might just leave with more than a wife.īuy it: Bookshop | Amazon | IndieBound You’ll Be Fine by Jen Michalski (2nd)Īfter Alex’s mother dies of an accidental overdose, Alex takes leave from her job as a writer for a lifestyle magazine to return home to Maryland and join her brother Owen, a study in failure to launch, in sorting out their mother’s whimsical, often self-destructive, life. Not to mention the conspicuous no-show and a tempting visit from the past. But as the weekend unfolds, it starts to feel like there’s a skeleton in every closet of the resort.įrom Tiny’s family members, who find the world is changing at an uncomfortable speed, to Caroline’s parents, who are engaged in conspiratorial whispers, to their friends, who packed secrets of their own―nobody seems entirely forthcoming. The conflict-phobic Tiny hopes for a beautiful weekend with her bride-to-be. In attendance―their respective families and a few choice friends. Yet here she is with Caroline, the love of her life, at their destination wedding on the Bermuda coast. Not because she didn’t want to, but because she didn’t think girls from Connecticut married other girls.

Tiny McAllister never thought she’d get married.

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