The Wedding I Can't Have
Elena Reyes plans perfect weddings for a living — and has never once made her own relationship last. When she's hired to plan the wedding of the year, a lavish New....
Elena Reyes plans perfect weddings for a living — and has never once made her own relationship last. When she's hired to plan the wedding of the year, a lavish New Year's Eve ceremony between two powerful families, everything seems routine: temperamental mothers, impossible flowers, a groom too easygoing to notice the chaos around him. Then she meets the best man, Jack Calloway — a sharp-tongued divorce lawyer who's spent his career watching marriages fall apart, and who somehow sees straight through the calm, composed planner Elena pretends to be. Weeks before the ceremony, the bride pulls Elena aside with a secret that changes everything: she isn't sure she wants to get married at all. Bound by a promise to say nothing, Elena is now planning a wedding that may never happen — while falling harder every day for the one man she absolutely cannot have. Behind the flowers and the seating charts lie two families with more at stake than love: old debts, buried promises, and a marriage that may have been a transaction all along. As secrets stack on secrets, rivals close in on Elena's business, an ex-fiancée reappears in Jack's life, and the countdown to New Year's Eve becomes a countdown to a choice no one saw coming. She's spent her whole career building other people's happy endings. Now she has to decide if she's brave enough to risk her own. A holiday romance about the vows we're afraid to make — and the ones we can't stop hoping for.