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Chapter One

Sophie Sullivan surveyed the final wedding preparations with satisfaction In less than two hours, her brother Chase and his fiancee, Chloe, would be saying "I do" beneath rose-covered arches with three hundred guests looking on The Napa Valley vineyard owned by her oldest brother, Marcus, was not only the perfect backdrop for the wedding, but was also where Chase and Chloe had first met and fallen in love

The bride and the other brides their makeup and hair done Sophie should have been there half an hour ago, but she’d wanted tooutside was perfect first She was a librarian, not a wedding planner, but she’d leapt at the chance to help plan Chase’s wedding, and it had been so s with--

"Hey, Nice, looking good"

Every muscle in Sophie’s body tensed at the lol from behind her

Jake McCann

Her brother Zach’s closest friendand the object of twenty years of her unrequited love

Of course, not once in those twenty years had she ever been anything more to him than Zach’s little sister

"My na to face hi her even from several feet away She’d always been overly attuned to hiirl, she’dout with her older brothers just to be near Jake, keeping extra quiet so no one would remember she was there while they played pool in the basee to turn and drink him in, to lose herself in the spark of wicked in his chocolate-brown eyes, was so strong she alaze trained over the wedding layout and the rolling hills of grapevines and mustard flowers as if she didn’t care one way or another if he stayed to talk to her

"Hard to believe the day has finally come" He paused, and she could hear the humor mixed with a faint disdain in his voice as he said, "A Sullivan is actually taking the plunge"

Sophie was known as the clear-headed, soft-spoken one in the fa action She’d never been prone to violent outburstsor to giving in to crazy inner urgings That was her twin sister Lori’s territory, which hy Lori’s nicknahty and Sophie’s was Nice But Sophie rarely felt level-headed anymore around Jake How could she when her heart always beat too fast at the thought of what it would feel like to be in his ar her mad with some macho coht now