Vivian Clarke lives and breathes weddings. As the owner of Ever After Events, the most sought-after wedding planning company in Maplewood, she's made a career out of creating fairy-tale moments and helping couples celebrate their love. Romantic, optimistic, and a firm believer in happily-ever-after, Vivian has orchestrated over two hundred perfect weddings?even if her own love life remains conspicuously blank.Nathan Rivers thinks weddings are a colossal waste of money. As a pragmatic financial advisor with a portfolio full of evidence that most marriages end in divorce, he's seen too many people make terrible financial decisions in the name of "love." Cynical, logical, and allergic to anything involving tulle or cake tastings, Nathan would rather discuss tax-advantaged retirement accounts than toast to eternal love.So when Nathan's younger brother Jake announces his engagement and hires Vivian to plan an extravagant wedding, Nathan is horrified. When Jake makes Nathan the best man and insists he "help" Vivian with the planning, Nathan is ready to stage an intervention. And when Vivian realizes the groom's insufferably arrogant brother will be questioning her every decision for the next six months, she's ready to strangle him with his own boring tie.From their first meeting, it's war. Nathan criticizes her centerpiece budget. Vivian mocks his spreadsheet for "optimal guest enjoyment." He argues that love is a biochemical reaction that fades in eighteen months. She argues that he wouldn't know romance if it hit him with a bouquet. Every planning meeting becomes a battlefield of barbed comments and passive-aggressive suggestions, with Jake and his fiancée caught in the crossfire.
But somewhere between the cake tastings and venue tours, between heated arguments about the cost of chair covers and debates about the statistical probability of marital bliss, something unexpected happens. Nathan starts to admire Vivian's fierce passion and creativity. Vivian begins to see the caring, protective heart beneath Nathan's cynical exterior. The insults become playful. The glares turn heated. And that infuriating tension? It's starting to feel a lot like attraction.With six months until the wedding and their chemistry reaching a boiling point, Vivian and Nathan must decide: Can a hopeless romantic and a determined cynic find common ground? Or will their differences destroy not just their growing feelings, but Jake's wedding as well?LOVE, UNPLANNED is a deliciously witty enemies-to-lovers romance full of sharp banter, scorching chemistry, and the discovery that sometimes the person who drives you crazy is the same person who makes your heart race. Perfect for fans of enemies-to-lovers, forced proximity, opposites attract, and wedding romance tropes.
