The Proper Way To Stop A Wedding. Victoria Alexander

      

      Settle in for a wicked romp in this captivating installment of The Lady Travelers Society series by New York Times bestselling author Victoria Alexander

      The family of the bride is expected to revel in the joy of the upcoming wedding. Instead, Miss Celia Bromley faces the most heartbreaking dilemma of her life: she’s fallen in love with the man engaged to marry her scheming half sister. Worse, he might love Celia in return. But handsome, bookish Henry Saunders is a man of honor. He would never break his promise to his bride-to-be, no matter how horrid she may be.

      Celia’s despair hasn’t escaped the notice of keen-eyed Aunt Guinevere, who, along with her crafty friends, is determined to see true love triumph. Unraveling a wedding takes a delicate, subtle touch, and in the mad dash to break one engagement and encourage another, the ladies may well hear the whispers of scandal instead of the peal of wedding bells...

      The Proper Way to Stop a Wedding (in Seven Days or Less)

      Victoria Alexander

       www.millsandboon.co.uk

       About the Author

      #1 New York Times bestselling author VICTORIA ALEXANDER was an award-winning television reporter until she discovered fiction was much more fun than real life. Since the publication of her first book in 1995, she’s written more than forty full-length novels that have been translated around the world. Victoria lives in Omaha, Nebraska, with a long-suffering husband she kills off in every book and two bearded collies in a house under constant renovation and never-ending chaos. She laughs a great deal—she has to. Check out her books at www.victoriaalexander.com, and chat with her on Facebook at www.Facebook.com/victoriaalexandersplace.

      Contents

       Cover

       Back Cover Text

       Title Page

       About the Author

       The Beginning

       Day One

       CHAPTER ONE

       CHAPTER TWO

       CHAPTER THREE

       Day Two

       CHAPTER FOUR

       CHAPTER FIVE

       CHAPTER SIX

       CHAPTER SEVEN

       Day Three

       CHAPTER EIGHT

       CHAPTER NINE

       Day Four

       CHAPTER TEN

       CHAPTER ELEVEN

       CHAPTER TWELVE

       CHAPTER THIRTEEN

       Day Five

       CHAPTER FOURTEEN

       Day Six

       CHAPTER FIFTEEN

       CHAPTER SIXTEEN

       Copyright

      Miss Celia Bromley refused to ruin her half sister Katherine’s wedding.

      Even if Celia did not especially like Katherine.

      Even if Katherine detested Celia.

      Even if Celia had fallen madly, irrevocably, hopelessly in love with Katherine’s groom.

      

       CHAPTER ONE

      Danby Manor, May 1855

      “ARE THERE ANY QUESTIONS?” Guinevere Blodgett beamed at her dearest friends in the world. Friends who had set aside everything in their own lives to come to Danby Manor at her request. But then wasn’t that what friends were for?

      Mrs. Ophelia Higginbotham and Mrs. Persephone Fitzhew-Wellmore—Effie and Poppy to those who knew them best—traded glances.

      “Clarification more than questions,” Effie began. “Apparently, you have sent for us so that we may help you in the preparations for the wedding that is to occur in one week’s time. A wedding that really has nothing to do with you as it’s the wedding of your niece’s half sister to an earl’s brother.”

      “And you have been, oh, lured into assisting,” Poppy continued.

      “Exactly.” Gwen blew a long breath. “It wasn’t by choice, believe me.” She had arrived at Danby Manor two days ago and realized at once someone needed to take things in hand. And as the bride’s father—and then the groom’s brother upon her arrival—had