Zusatztext An utterly delightful book that is amusing! touching and completely charming...[Roberts is] at her best in Vision in White . Deseret Morning News (Salt Lake City) Timeless and classic. All About Romance Thoroughly charminga compelling celebration of the power of friendship and love. Booklist Funny sparks fly[Roberts's] gentle humor and likable cast will immediately endear this series to readers. Publishers Weekly Informationen zum Autor Nora Roberts Klappentext #1 New York Times bestselling author Nora Roberts presents a novel of love! friendship! and family in Book One in the Bride Quartet.Wedding photographer Mackensie "Mac" Elliot is most at home behind the camera! but her focus is shattered moments before an important wedding rehearsal when she bumps into the bride-to-be's brother...an encounter that has them both seeing stars.A stable! safe English teacher! Carter Maguire is definitely not Mac's type. But a casual fling might be just what she needs to take her mind off bridezillas. Of course! casual flings can turn into something more when you least expect it. And Mac will have to turn to her three best friends-and business partners-to see her way to her own happy ending.Don't miss the other books in the Bride QuartetBed of RosesSavor the MomentHappy Ever After PROLOGUE By the time she was eight, Mackensie Elliot had beenmarried fourteen times. She'd married each of her three bestfriendsas both bride and groomher best friend's brother(under his protest), two dogs, three cats, and a rabbit.She'd served at countless other weddings as maid of honor,bridesmaid, groomsman, best man, and officiant.Though the dissolutions were invariably amicable, none ofthe marriages lasted beyond an afternoon. The transitory aspectof marriage came as no surprise to Mac, as her own parentsboasted two eachso far. Wedding Day wasn't her favorite game, but she kind of likedbeing the priest or the reverend or the justice of the peace. Or,after attending her father's second wife's nephew's bar mitzvah,the rabbi. Plus, she enjoyed the cupcakes or fancy cookies and fizzylemonade always served at the reception. It was Parker's favorite game, and Wedding Day always took place on the Brown Estate, with its expansive gardens, prettygroves, and silvery pond. In the cold Connecticut winters, theceremony might take place in front of one of the roaring firesinside the big house. They had simple weddings and elaborate affairs. Royal weddings,star- crossed elopements, circus themes, and pirate ships.All ideas were seriously considered and voted upon, and notheme or costume too outrageous. Still, with fourteen marriages under her belt, Mac grew a bitweary of Wedding Day. Until she experienced her seminal moment. For her eighth birthday Mackensie's charming and mostlyabsent father sent her a Nikon camera. She'd never expressedany interest in photography, and initially pushed it away withthe other odd gifts he'd given or sent since the divorce. ButMac's mother told her mother, and Grandma muttered and complainedabout feckless, useless Geoffrey Elliot and the inappropriategift of an adult camera for a young girl who'd be betteroff with a Barbie doll. As she habitually disagreed with her grandmother on principle,Mac's interest in the camera piqued. To annoy Grandmawho was visiting for the summer instead of being in herretirement community in Scottsdale, where Mac strongly believedshe belongedMac hauled the Nikon around with her.She toyed with it, experimented. She took pictures of her room,of her feet, of her friends. Shots that were blurry and dark, orfuzzy and washed out. With her lack of success, and her mother'simpending divorce from her stepfather, Mac's interest in theNikon began to wane. Even years later she couldn't say whatprompted her to bring ...

ldquo;An utterly delightful book that is amusing, touching and completely charming...[Roberts is] at her best in Vision in White.”—Deseret Morning News (Salt Lake City)

“Timeless and classic.”—All About Romance

“Thoroughly charming…a compelling celebration of the power of friendship and love.”—Booklist

“Funny sparks fly…[Roberts’s] gentle humor and likable cast will immediately endear this series to readers.”—Publishers Weekly

Autorentext

Nora Roberts

Klappentext

-to-be's brother...an encounter that has them both seeing stars. A stable, safe English teacher, Carter Maguire is definitely not Mac's type. But a casual fling might be just what she needs to take her mind off bridezillas. Of course, casual flings can turn into something more when you least expect it. And Mac will have to turn to her three best friends-and business partners-to see her way to her own happy ending. Don't miss the other books in the Bride Quartet Bed of Roses Savor the Moment Happy Ever After

Zusammenfassung

*#1 New York Times* bestselling author Nora Roberts presents a novel of love, friendship, and family in Book One in the Bride Quartet.

**Wedding photographer Mackensie "Mac" Elliot is most at home behind the camera, but her focus is shattered moments before an important wedding rehearsal when she bumps into the bride-to-be's brother...an encounter that has them both seeing stars.

A stable, safe English teacher, Carter Maguire is definitely not Mac's type. But a casual fling might be just what she needs to take her mind off bridezillas. Of course, casual flings can turn into something more when you least expect it. And Mac will have to turn to her three best friends—and business partners—to see her way to her own happy ending.

Don't miss the other books in the Bride Quartet
Bed of Roses
Savor the Moment
Happy Ever After **
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Leseprobe
PROLOGUE

By the time she was eight, Mackensie Elliot had beenmarried fourteen times. She’d married each of her three bestfriends—as both bride and groom—her best friend’s brother(under his protest), two dogs, three cats, and a rabbit.She’d served at countless other weddings as maid of honor,bridesmaid, groomsman, best man, and officiant.Though the dissolutions were invariably amicable, none ofthe marriages lasted beyond an afternoon. The transitory aspectof marriage came as no surprise to Mac, as her own parentsboasted two each—so far.

Wedding Day wasn’t her favorite game, but she kind of likedbeing the priest or the reverend or the justice of the peace. Or,after attending her father’s second wife’s nephew’s bar mitzvah,the rabbi.

Plus, she enjoyed the cupcakes or fancy cookies and fizzylemonade always served at the reception.

It was Parker’s favorite game, and Wedding Day always took place on the Brown Estate, with its expansive gardens, prettygroves, and silvery pond. In the cold Connecticut winters, theceremony might take place in front of one of the roaring firesinside the big house.

They had simple weddings and elaborate affairs. Royal weddings,star- crossed elopements, circus themes, and pirate ships.All ideas were seriously considered and voted upon, and notheme or costume too outrageous.

Still, with fourteen marriages under her belt, Mac grew a bitweary of Wedding Day.

Until she experienced her seminal moment.

For her eighth birthday Mackensie’s charming and mostlyabsent father sent her a Nikon camera. She’d never expressedany interest in photography, and initially pushed it away withthe other odd gifts he’d given or sent since the d…