Wedding planner Sunday Miller never thought she’d be starting over in her fifties—but here she is, newly divorced and living in the charming beach town of St. Caroline, Maryland. Between trying to master online dating (with comically disappointing results), managing the high-profile celebrity wedding of the year at the elegant Chesapeake Inn, and fending off a fiercely friendly quilting circle, Sunday barely has time to breathe—let alone fall in love.
Enter Tim Wolfe, the town’s widowed fire chief and most eligible silver fox. With a quiet strength and a heart as solid as his shoulders, Tim is everything Sunday has given up on. She’s rebuilt her life once already. Can she risk her heart again?
The Wedding Planner is a warm, feel-good standalone women’s fiction novel with a heartfelt later-in-life romance, a dash of humor, and a whole lot of hope. Perfect for fans of small-town stories, second chances, and seaside escapes.
Julia Gabriel writes contemporary romance and women’s fiction filled with emotional depth, relatable characters, and satisfying happily-ever-afters. Her books have been selected as Top Picks by RT Book Reviews, and praised by critics at RT, Kirkus, and others as “nuanced,” “heart-wrenching and emotional,” “well-crafted contemporary romance,” and “deeply moving storytelling.”
When she’s not writing, Julia is either teaching in the MFA in Popular Fiction program at Emerson College or getting lost in her latest quilting project—an obsession that sometimes finds its way into her stories. She lives in New England with too much fabric and just the right amount of coffee.