#romantic comedy

The Engagement Letter

by Priya Anand

Anika Rao does not believe in weddings. She believes in deliverables, deadlines, and the partnership she's about to earn at one of Toronto's coldest consulting firms — if she can survive one last engagement.

The engagement: Marigold Events, a thirty-year-old wedding company that runs on its founder's memory, a thousand favours, and absolutely no systems. Anika's job is to fix it, value it, and recommend what to do with it. Usha Malhotra's job, apparently, is to introduce her to the entire Toronto wedding circuit as her son's girlfriend — because nobody can know a consultant is in the building.

Their parents were friends before either of them was born, and Courtney and his wife Mia eventually dated, broke up for two years, found each other again and got married. Forty dates make a movie. One person, two chances and a happy ending will do the job, too.

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