Mia Sosa (Acting on Impulse) serves up an extra helping of fake dating in her steamy, laugh-out-loud romance The Wedding Crasher. After Solange overhears the bride confessing her love to someone else, she proceeds to ruin Dean's ceremony. What she doesn't know is that the wedding is a modern-day marriage of convenience.
Having a wife would help Dean's attempt to make partner at his law firm, so now Dean needs Solange's assistance. Because the partners seek someone to woo a potential new lawyer and only couples will do, Solange and Dean engage in their own fake-dating scheme. When Solange's aunt and cousin visit from Brazil, it becomes her turn to need a fake boyfriend. Solange, a continuing education teacher and a diehard romantic, may be leaving D.C. for a position in Ohio; Dean needs stability and doesn't want to risk a messy relationship. Despite all this, their inconvenient feelings are undeniable, turning their fake relationship into something real.
The Wedding Crasher is closely tied to Sosa's The Worst Best Man, but it can stand alone. The large Afro-Brazilian family the author has created is so warm, funny and nosy that readers will want to spend more time with them. Solange and Dean's banter alone is enough to recommend the novel, but Sosa manages to fill the prose with everything romance fans could want: food, family, heat and humor. --Suzanne Krohn, librarian and freelance reviewer