The wedding cake is frosted and the champagne is chilled. The ceremony is about to begin when BOOM! A gun-toting lunatic in a gas mask crashes the party. She has a bomb strapped to her toned arm and, unless she gets the apology she's after, she'll blow the place to smithereens. Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned, and a terrorist busting up your wedding is hardly the dream of any bride and groom, yet the couple rolls with this unfortunate turn of events.
Novelist/poet Lisa Zeidner's innovative and outlandish Love Bomb takes this story of a spurned lover looking for revenge and creates a wild, addictive tale of sheer brilliance. Although the main character is holding an entire wedding party hostage, Zeidner treats her sympathetically; you may even end up feeling sorry for the crazy gal. Once you find out about the subpar man who unceremoniously dumped her and set this plot in motion, you might like to take a few shots at him yourself.
As the standoff drags on, we learn the love stories of the captive wedding guests: the rejected novelist secretly spying on her cad of an ex-boyfriend; the aging, twice-divorced Casanova; the young waitress being stalked by an obsessed ex-paramour. Luckily--or unluckily?--nearly a quarter of the guests are practicing psychiatrists. It's riveting to see who will able to defuse the situation before anyone gets seriously hurt. --Natalie Papailiou, author of blog MILF: Mother I'd Like to Friend