#MFRWhooks Blog Hop - An Excerpt from HER BEST MAN - What A Cliche!
- May 7
- 2 min read
Happy Book Hooks Blog Hop Day! Today I'm sharing an excerpt from HER BEST MAN, What a Cliche! HER BEST MAN is book 1 in my Left at the Altar romantic comedy series. I recently got the rights back to the series and self-published them with new covers. I'm thrilled about how they turned out!
In this snippet, it's the day after Sarah was dumped at the altar at her wedding. Her mother is driving her crazy, and she wonders how things went so wrong:
Excerpt:
What a cliché she was. The poor, pathetic bride jilted at the altar. Speculation and gossip had probably already spread among her relatives and co-workers with the speed of an infectious disease. Even her young students in her kindergarten class would wonder why their teacher was still Miss Stevens instead of Mrs. Marshall.
She could just hear the whispers. Brad was in love with another woman. Brad was in love with another man. Brad had finally realized how frightfully boring she was. Brad had slept with Sarah and discovered how miserably inept and inexperienced she was.
Ha, she thought, the laugh is on them.
She and Brad had never slept together. She'd wanted to wait until they were married, and Brad had respected her wishes. Sarah felt a twinge of remorse. To be honest, having sex with Brad hadn't been a high priority for her. Maybe if she'd just done it, they'd be together right now. The fact that she was spending what was supposed to be her wedding night making tea for her mother and her friends wasn't lost on Sarah.
"I don't blame you for being angry," Dani said. "I'd be angry too if a man did that to me, especially someone I loved with all my heart the way you loved Brad."
Sarah swallowed hard. This talk about love made her wonder why she was more upset at the way Brad broke up with her than the idea of losing Brad himself. She hadn't even cried yet. Was it a delayed reaction or was there something wrong with her? She'd just lost the love of her life. Hadn't she?
Glumly, she wondered what happened now. Would she end up a pathetic spinster with a house full of cats, serving tea and cookies to her mother and her friends for the rest of her life? Was there some flaw in her personality that made her unlovable? She pushed the tea away, suddenly nauseated by the smell.
Blurb:
Sarah Stevens experiences a bride's worst nightmare; being dumped at the altar. When she goes on the Caribbean cruise meant to be her honeymoon in order to lick her wounds, she discovers her ex-fiancé has sent his brother, Will Marshall, the former best man, on the cruise as well. Everyone on board thinks they're newlyweds, and Sarah is too embarrassed to set them straight. How is she supposed to share a tiny cabin with a man she barely knows? How is she supposed to pretend that she and Will are on their honeymoon? Even worse, how can she keep from falling in love with him? Sarah discovers the best man for her really is the best man.
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Hi,
This book sounds engaging. The bride left at the altar, a new look at romance, and I like it.
All the best.
Shalom shalom
Great plot, Jana. I smiled throughout the blurb. :)
It's obvious already that Brad was not the right man for her.
She's lucky!
What a predicament! I love the setup of the story. I recently read a "jilted at the altar" story in which the groom falls in love with his best man. This sounds like a fun read.