Marry Me
By: Kristin Wallace
She'd vowed never to fall in love...
Julia Richardson is no fan of weddings. A lifetime of watching her parents treat relationships like the flavor of the month has taught her that love is for fools. Then she learns her former stepsister is having a crisis with her pregnancy. The crisis has Julia returning to the small Southern town – and the family – she’s been avoiding for years. Before she knows it, Julia’s been pressed into service running her former stepsister’s wedding planning business, Marry Me.
Julia doesn’t know a garter from a garden hose, but now she must navigate couples along the bumpy path down the aisle - despite wardrobe malfunctions, killer bees, and plenty of near disasters. In the midst of it all, Julia makes the most unexpected discovery of all…Love, with Seth Graham, the widowed local minister! Julia’s been running from love and everything spiritual for most of her life. It’s not until she finds the courage to stop running that she finds her own “I Do” moment.
Julia Richardson is no fan of weddings. A lifetime of watching her parents treat relationships like the flavor of the month has taught her that love is for fools. Then she learns her former stepsister is having a crisis with her pregnancy. The crisis has Julia returning to the small Southern town – and the family – she’s been avoiding for years. Before she knows it, Julia’s been pressed into service running her former stepsister’s wedding planning business, Marry Me.
Julia doesn’t know a garter from a garden hose, but now she must navigate couples along the bumpy path down the aisle - despite wardrobe malfunctions, killer bees, and plenty of near disasters. In the midst of it all, Julia makes the most unexpected discovery of all…Love, with Seth Graham, the widowed local minister! Julia’s been running from love and everything spiritual for most of her life. It’s not until she finds the courage to stop running that she finds her own “I Do” moment.
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Welcome To Covington Falls
A
setting of a book can have as much personality as the hero and heroine and the
side characters. Covington Falls certainly falls under that category. It’s a
fictional, small, Southern town. I love fictional town because you can make them
whatever you want. No one is going to question you about a street being wrong or
what have you. I wanted to make it a small town setting because there’s an
inherent intimacy with them. Neighbors know each other and they’re always in
each other’s business. In a big city, that’s not the case. I also liked the idea
of a Southern town because things are just different in the South. Quirky should
be the South’s middle name.
I
love my little, fictional, Southern town. It’s also full of little family
legacies. Covington is a family name. It was grandmother’s maiden name on my
mom’s side. The town was founded by two families – the Covingtons and the
Rices. Rice is my grandmother’s maiden name on my dad’s side.
Covington Falls is also a place
that represents everything my heroine, Julia, both longs for and fears. It’s a
place of verandahs and porch swings and white picket fences. Lemonade stands and
ice cream trucks that play a tune. It’s welcome mats and the ritual of making
tea.
Main
Street in “downtown” Covington Falls is the center of everything. It’s where the
wedding planning business (MARRY ME) is located. One of the running jokes in
this book (and the two subsequent books I’ve written that are set in Covington
Falls) is the store window. First Sarah and then later Julia decorate so it
looks like a snapshot of a scene. And both add their own personalities to the
display, which is fun.
Growing up
Kristin devoured books like bags of Dove Dark Chocolate. Everything from
Nancy Drew & Encyclopedia Brown to C.S. Lewis and the Sweet
Valley High series. Later she discovered romance novels. It’s no surprise
then that Kristin would one day try her hand at writing them. She
writes inspirational romance and women’s fiction filled with love, laughter and
a leap of faith. In May 2013, Kristin sold her first novel, MARRY ME, to Astraea
Press. Publication date to come!
When
she’s not writing her next novel, Kristin works as an
advertising copywriter. She also enjoys singing in her church choir and
playing flute in a community orchestra.
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