Every Wedding But Ours

She stages perfect weddings for strangers. She once ran from her own, three days before the vows.Posy Lindgren can make anybody believe in forever in under a minute, which is the one thing the town of Sable Bay refuses to let her forget, because she walked out on her own wedding and has been the cautionary tale of every bridal shower since. The runaway planner. Now her one-woman business is a single cancellation from going dark, and the only lifeline left is the grandest venue on the lake: Brightwater, a rambling white-verandaed estate about to be sold and paved over. Its formidable owner is offering one last legacy season, eighteen weddings, May to October, every one of them true.There's a catch, and it has a name. The contract binds two people together, non-severable: if either quits, for any reason, they both lose everything. And the photographer Posy is chained to for the summer is Eli Brandt, a man who thinks weddings are beautiful lies, the glossy prologue to the divorce he's already survived. He shoots the cracks now, the unguarded seconds nobody books. He and Posy share a history, and none of it is warm. But over ruined seating charts, rained-out timelines, and one barefoot bride who bolts straight into the lake, their sniping starts to sound suspiciously like something they're both afraid to name.Then the man Posy ran from books his own wedding at Brightwater, on a date her contract won't let her decline. She has to build the exact day she once fled, down to the last ribbon on the two-hundred-year-old Vow Oak that every couple ties a wish to. Every couple but her.A swoony, sharp-tongued, slow-burn summer romance about second chances, old wounds, and the terrifying difference between planning a happy ending and risking one. Perfect for readers who love enemies-to-lovers, forced proximity, small-town settings, and a grumpy hero who only ever photographs what's real, for fans of Emily Henry and Tessa Bailey.Pull up a mismatched folding chair under the Vow Oak and stay for the whole season.