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“[T]herein love”

~ Jane Austen

And a hundred different ways not to recognize it

Cast

Emerett “Lake” Lakewood: Ridiculously clueless and a compulsive matchmaker

Knightly Dixon: Morally scrupulous with the patience of a saint

Taylor Dixon: Knightly’s son and Lake’s best friend

Ae at the start of the book

Harry: Lake’s first victi

Philip: Theand his alligator-print shoes

Martin: Harry’s cousin and longstanding crush

Cae fan of Jane Austen Needs a venue for his film studio

Brandon: Cameron’s brother and business partner

Josh: Lives down the street, graduated fro better than Lake

West: Lived abroad in England, was Taylor’s first best friend Is harboring a secret

Garfield: The cat

Es

He snatched the spare key from underneath a pot of petunias and broke into his best friend’s childhood home Floorboards creaked as he stole into the urban-far room

Taylor’s Xbox shiht; the distressed-wood coffee table he and Taylor had studied at for exa up in the night they’d graduated college taunted A silly ache washed over him like a late October breeze

He’d been one of the last to leave the local hall, though he’d wanted to bail the minute Taylor and Amy—his noife—had driven off with a clatter of tin cans

His sigh echoed in the room From his tuxedo lapel, he removed a cream lily The flower his best friend had chosen for the centerpieces and bouquet

Lake set it atop the rustic mantelpiece, under an old clock that ticked ten past three, and slung hithwise over the couch He sank into its fa to knock his legs away