Love, Interrupted

Love Interrupted: At thirty-three, Ella Wright had it all: a thriving business, a chic apartment, and a six-year relationship with Ben. Then the “all” became “absolutely nothing.” After Ben trades her in for the firm’s receptionist and her business goes bust, Ella is forced to do the unthinkable: move back into her childhood bedroom.

But her parents’ house is no sanctuary. Her mother, Iris, has a radical plan to handle her father Richard’s drinking—a DIY kidnapping to a remote rehab center—and Ella has inadvertently become the getaway driver.

Just when life couldn’t get more chaotic, Ella finds herself at the lavish wedding of her old friend, Mark Stern. It’s a high-school reunion from hell, and the seating chart is a battlefield:

• The One Who Got Away: David Whitman is back from Switzerland, looking devastatingly handsome and carrying fifteen years’ worth of questions about the night Ella stood him up for prom. And the secret she kept from him all those years.

• The Spanish Diva: Unfortunately, David didn’t come alone. He’s brought his girlfriend, a pompous Spanish socialite who treats the wedding like her personal runway and Ella like a catering waitress.

• The Best Friend: Jessica Hewitt is there to provide the martinis, the side-eye, and the moral support Ella desperately needs.

• The Holy Cousin: Sebastian, Richard’s nephew, has finally resurfaced. After vanishing years ago to escape his parents’ divorce, he’s returned with a collar and a calling: he’s now a priest.

As the champagne flows, old sparks between Jessica and Sebastian begin to fly, and David’s piercing gaze demands the truth Ella has hidden since she was eighteen—all while his girlfriend demands a better vintage of cava. Between dodging debt collectors, navigating her mother’s kidnapping plot, and facing the man she never stopped loving, Ella is about to learn that sometimes life has to be interrupted before it can truly begin.