The Wedding Party

Maddie Forest and Theo Stephens have disliked each other for years. They have one thing in common, their best friend Alexa Monroe, and that keeps putting them in the same rooms whether they like it or not.

After a one-night stand following Theo's birthday party, both want the same thing: Alexa must never find out. Then Alexa asks each of them to stand up in her wedding party, and they have to spend months in each other's company.

Their answer is a private arrangement. They will keep seeing each other in secret until the wedding, and then they will end it. Neither of them believes it will turn out to be anything but simple.

This is the third book in the Wedding Date series, a contemporary romance built on a hate-to-love dynamic, with plenty of banter. Both leads have work of their own: Theo is pushing to pass a statewide pre-K initiative, while Maddie wants a way into television styling, where she would dress women returning to the workforce.

The deadline is the wedding day, and the question is whether two people who set out to keep this temporary can stick to the plan.