The Island Wedding

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The chapel was booked. The wedding money vanished. The photographer asked about the groom. THE MERROW BAY SISTERS · BOOK FOUR Juno Hartley has planned everything. The little granite chapel on Merrow Island, which you can only reach between tides. The old coastguard station for the reception, where the light comes off the sea and fills the room. Her sisters in a row. The seating plan, laminated. And the photographer, from a flyer she took off a bakery noticeboard on New Year's Eve. Rafe Lowrie lives on the island in his late grandmother's cottage, under a roof that leaks into five containers, and every morning he photographs the sunrise from the same stone. At their first meeting he asks Juno what her fiancé looks like when he laughs. She can't remember. Then the balance she paid for the venue turns out never to have arrived. The caterer doesn't exist either. Twelve thousand pounds of wedding money has gone to the wrong account, and Juno isn't the only bride on the island who has been robbed. With six weeks to go, a fiancé who keeps disappearing on Tuesday evenings, an eighty-one-year-old treasurer with a green cashbook, and a thousand sunrises that turn out to have caught something nobody else saw, Juno has to find out who took the money. She also has to find out why a man with a camera sees her more clearly than the man she is supposed to marry. • A warm, funny contemporary romance with a little mystery, set on a Northumberland tidal island in spring. • Sensual, not explicit. A wedding fraud, a lighthouse keeper's sixty-five-year proposal, and a seal called Norris. • Book four of the Merrow Bay Sisters; reads on its own.