My Ex-Best Friend's Wedding

Lauren and Bree grew up closer than sisters on the Outer Banks, with a plan to leave for New York together. Bree backed out at the last minute and married Lauren's high school boyfriend. Twenty years later Lauren is a successful novelist and Bree runs a bookstore in the town they both swore they would leave, and they have not spoken since.

When Lauren comes home with a fiancé to claim the family wedding dress she never expected to wear, the old wound reopens. Kendra, Lauren's mother, has her own history with that dress — and a secret she has carried since she left a man at the altar decades ago.

Wendy Wax writes a standalone novel about friendship that curdles, promises that go unkept, and the storm, literal and otherwise, that finally forces three women to say the things they have avoided.