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MAID OF DISHONOUR: 20 minutes from disaster - Softcover

.MOON, VERA

 
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Synopsis

The Maid of Dishonor: 20 Minutes from Disaster is an emotional contemporary romance novella by Vera Moon. Blending high-stakes wedding drama, sharp banter, and deep character reflection, the story explores the heavy cost of staying silent to keep the peace versus the bravery of speaking the truth.

Synopsis

Maddie Reyes arrives at Lake House Number Two in a linen dress, holding a fake smile and an uneasy feeling in her chest. Traveling to be the maid of honor for her college best friend, Priya, Maddie expects four days of toasts, string lights, and wedding preparations. Instead, she immediately catches Priya's fiancé, Chase, taking secretive, agitated phone calls.

As the weekend unfolds, Maddie overhears Chase speaking intimately with his ex-girlfriend, Sabrina, and stumbles upon a hidden, printed job offer to relocation in Singapore—a two-year assignment with an impending deadline that Chase hasn't mentioned to Priya.

Maddie finds an unlikely ally in Jack Whitfield—Chase’s gruff, outdoorsy older brother and the wedding’s best man. Having survived his own painful past with a broken engagement born from unexpressed doubts, Jack recognizes the toxic nature of Chase's silence. Bound together as unwilling co-conspirators, Maddie and Jack navigate bad kindling, wrong salmon, and a torrential summer storm that forces them to share the cramped loft above the boathouse.

As the tension turns into an unexpected, deep mutual attraction, time runs out. When Chase admits that Sabrina is twenty minutes away from arriving at the lake house, Maddie and Jack are forced to act. Choosing transparency over quiet compliance, they confront Priya with the truth—igniting a storm of anger, painful clarity, and a postponed wedding.

Ultimately, The Maid of Dishonor is a story about breaking cycles of secret-keeping, rebuilding trust, and finding a love that doesn't require performance or silence.

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