Love and its many complications have become the hallmarks of Beth Harbison's cleverly titled novels. In Chose the Wrong Guy, Gave Him the Wrong Finger, she sets up a love triangle that's sure to please fans of entertaining, lighthearted women's fiction.
Small-town girl Quinn Barton had every intention of marrying her high school sweetheart, Burke Morrison. Moments before she is to walk down the aisle, however, her future brother-in-law, Frank, pulls the 21-year-old bride aside and announces that Burke, his brother, has been cheating on her. Quinn, appalled, calls off the wedding and has a short-lived rebound relationship with Frank that ultimately fizzles. The boys depart their Middleburg, Va., hometown, while Quinn stays behind, married to her job running a local bridal shop.
A decade later, Burke and Frank's eccentric 82-year-old grandmother decides to marry again, and she hires Quinn to make her wedding gown. Might this be a scheme to lure the boys back to town? When they arrive for the ceremony and to tie up loose ends on the family farm, Quinn realizes the story of the Morrison brothers, and the depth of her feelings for them, is not really over--and vice-versa.
Harbison (When in Doubt, Add Butter) has once again created an endearing, humorous story with laugh-out-loud twists and turns. The interior intimacy of her witty, first-person narration leads readers on a well-balanced, romantic journey from true love to heartbreak--and back again. --Kathleen Gerard, blogger at Reading Between the Lines