Kindle Edition Amazon Christi Barth Category:  Romance Publisher: Carina Press ISBN-10:  B0088NH1K8 Type: Fiction Pages: 384 Copyright: August 2012 ISBN-13: 9781426894213 Price: $3.03 (eBook) In the harsh spotlight of reality television, a romance-a-holic wedding planner tries to snare the anti-Cupid. Hopeless romantic Ivy Rhodes and anti-Cupid Bennett Westcott request the pleasure of your company for their disaster of a courtship Wedding planner Ivy Rhodes is the best in the business, and she's not about to let a personal problem stop her from getting ahead. So when she's asked to star in the reality TV show Planning for Love, it doesn't matter that the show's videographer happens to be a recent—and heartbreaking—one-night stand. Bennett Westcott admits he didn't handle his encounter with Ivy very well. But looking at her beautiful smile—and great body—through a camera lens every day? He can't be faulted for suggesting they have some no-strings fun. The more time they spend together, the more Ben realizes Ivy isn't the wedding-crazed bridezilla he'd imagined. But if he doesn't trust himself to make a relationship last, how can he convince Ivy to give him another chance?

Publisher's Weekly
Barth's contemporary trilogy launch charms readers with a delightfully intelligent heroine who believes firmly in the power of love. Handsome cameraman Bennett Westcott coaxes wedding planner Ivy Rhodes to appear on the reality TV show Wild Wedding Smackdown, saying it will help her business. Sparks fly and the two jump in the sack. Despite a fabulous "sexual marathon" followed by a near-perfect day exploring Chicago, Ivy's professed faith in old-fashioned romantic ideals sends Bennett running to the airport. When he returns as the producer of another wedding planner-centered reality show, Ivy agrees to go on a single date with him while strategizing how to "convince him dating isn't an evil, soul-sucking tool to rob him of his masculinity and independence." Fans of wedding bells and sassy contemporaries will love the well-drawn chemistry and a heroine with brains and heart.

RT Book Reviews
Readers who are in love with love will be charmed with this book, the first in a planned trilogy. Every page delivers a promise of innocent flirtation, unsuspected romance and tender devotion. Barth is a writer of admirable narrative energy, and her background as a wedding planner makes this book truly believable.