Cold Feet

Let the wedding bells ring! Five original tales of wedded bliss, nightmare nuptials and cold, cold feet from some of today's hottest authors.

On their way to a wedding, Megan and Joel crash their car in Elise Juska''s ''Perfect Weather for Driving''. It makes for a great drunken story at the rehearsal dinner, but they''ve found themselves stuck indefinitely at a hotel in Vermont. In ''The Happiest Day of Your Life'' by Heather Swain, everyone tells Annie that her wedding day will be the best yet, but her invitations have the wrong name, and a tornado destroys the bar where the is supposed to take place. But when a bomb explodes on the subway line that her fiancé, Ben, takes every morning, everything changes. In ''Losing California'' by Tara McCarthy, L.A. surfing teacher Allison Beyer cancels her wedding and flies to Nova Scotia to infiltrate the life of a singer in her favourite band. And in ''Jules & Emily'' by Lisa Tucker, two lonely people meet on an online board for agoraphobics, but both will be forced to change when one is invited to her estranged brother''s wedding all the way across the country.