A Cross-Country Wedding

<p><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>A fun-loving free spirit.</strong></p><p><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Her buttoned-up best friend.</strong></p><p><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>And a cross-country wedding that could drive their platonic relationship toward something else entirely.</strong></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Simon Collier is my friend.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Heck he's been my friend for most of my adult life-and we couldn't be more different.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>I love late-night karaoke. He's a homebody with a piano I've never heard him play.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>I relish being the center of attention while Simon prefers to fade into the background.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>My dresser is a disaster. He alphabetizes his fridge.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>I suppose we're a little like sunshine and rain. It's why our friendship works.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Even though we're total opposites we get along like peas and carrots. He's constantly saving me after failed romances and I push him to live a little. . .even if that means dragging him out of his comfort zone.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>If I can make him laugh it's a win.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>He's my safe person. Secure reliable fun to poke fun at.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Simon Collier is my friend.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>But now all that might change.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>After another predictable break-up I find myself in need of a plus-one for my best friend Lauren's cross-country wedding. A wedding that reenacts the road trip where she and her fiance Will first fell in love. And despite his fussiness Simon is the safest person to bring along because I'm not in the market for any more messy feelings.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Our friendship has been intact for over ten years surely we can handle a week crammed in a car sharing meals and playlists and nighttime secrets and single beds.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Right?</span></p><p></p><p><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)><em>A Cross-Country Wedding </em>is a sizzling but sweet friends-to-more road trip romance. It is the second in the Road Trip Romance series & while it reads as a stand-alone it may be best enjoyed after reading <em>A Cross-Country Christmas.</em></strong></p><p></p>