Lori Wilde, There Goes the Bride

There Goes the Bride

Lori Wilde

Warner, Mar 2007, $6.99

ISBN: 0446618454

In Houston, the upcoming marriage between Delaney Cartwright and her fianc orthopedic surgeon Dr. Evan van Zandt makes all of the societal pages of newspapers and magazines. However, the bride has doubts, although she admits her fianc is a nice, likable person; she wants sparks and there are none. She even agrees to his suggestion of no sex until they marry because she does not expect to miss it, at least not with Evan.

Delaney stops at a consignment shop that sells wedding attire; there she buys a veil that seems to be calling to her and makes a wish to get out of her nuptials. Her friends persuade her to abduct Evan and have her way with him. Instead she almost kidnaps Evan's patient, undercover Detective Dominic Vanetti, whom she saw in a vision when she first touched the veil. Still, her plan now is to hire someone to abduct her so she does not have to say I do, but someone else has the same agenda with a different outcome.

THERE GOES THE BRIDE is a Wilde, madcap, contemporary romance with paranormal elements. Delaney is a nice person that readers will not initially respect because of her fear of behaving wrongly in the eyes of her societal mother. That includes avoiding telling her she does not want to wed Evan; this leads to her concocting this maniacal scheme even as she knows her fianc is a kind person deserving better treatment from her. Ironically, her plot becomes real with the cause inadvertently being the prime reason her mother demanded proper behavior from her, her late older sister and her father.

Harriet Klausner