For the Bride

On the surface, Alice has her life together. She's got a job in music she loves, she's firmly sober, and she's grateful to be back in the good graces of her ex-girlfriend-once-best-friend-now-literal-only-friend Gin. Just in time, too, because Gin's getting married this summer, and Alice gets to be a bridesmaid.

If only the maid of honor wasn't Renee Roberts: type-A, the opposite of Alice in every way, and a long-time Alice-hater who's clung to her animosity like a leech. Every second Alice spends around Renee makes her feel like who she used to be rather than the person she's spent years trying to become — and she doesn't want to be reminded of her younger self any more than she wants to admit how often she's thinking about Renee.

Alice has her own stuff to figure out. She still loves music, but her career feels directionless. She's grieving the loss of her father, a year gone now to alcohol. And her mother has started dating her father's ex-bandmate. With the wedding bearing down, she doesn't want to bother Gin with any of it — until chance throws her together with Renee just when she needs someone most, and everything shifts.

Over the days and nights spent helping Gin throw a DIY summer wedding of epic proportions, Alice and Renee discover that though they have nothing in common, that might be exactly what each of them needs. For the Bride is a banter-filled sapphic romance about found family, second chances, and finding love in the unexpected.