Bells Are Ringing

<p><em>You're invited to the wedding of 1954!</em></p><p> </p><p>Dr. Parnell Robert Williams M.D. invites you to attend the ceremony at Grace Cathedral on Nob Hill at 2 p.m. on Saturday the 17th of April.</p><p> </p><p>There he will wed Leticia Rose Wilson and she will be his beloved bride.</p><p> </p><p><em>Or maybe not...</em></p><p> </p><p>Comes Thursday the 8th and with only nine days to go Lettie (the bride-to-be) is having wedding jitters.</p><p> </p><p>She begs her soon-to-be husband to skip all the pomp and circumstance and elope to Las Vegas.</p><p> </p><p>With the church cancelled and the reception at the Pacific Union Club called off—it looks like the nuptials will be a quickie at the Western Stars Wedding Chapel on Fremont Street in downtown Vegas.</p><p> </p><p><em>Unless Lettie changes her mind...</em></p><p> </p><p><em>Which she does...</em></p><p> </p><p>Can Nick Carter and Marnie pull together a wedding in just three days?</p><p> </p><p>They just might be able to do so with some help from the private dicks at Consolidated Security a pair of lady couples from Eureka Valley and a couple of female illusionists from the Tenderloin.</p><p> </p><p>Maybe the social event of the season just might turn out to be a success after all...</p><p> </p><p><em>Fingers crossed!</em></p><p> </p><p>* * *</p><p> </p><p>This is a novella that runs to about 26K words.</p>