Celia Cleary just learned that the man of her dreams has dreams of his own.
After years of choreographing first dances for couples from all walks of life, ballroom dance diva Celia Cleary faces the greatest wedding challenge of her career: her own! Not only must she relax and let her fiancé lead, but she must do so 3,849 miles due east, on his home turf, under the skeptical gaze of his possessive mother, all while preventing her crazy New Jersey family from running amok in France and sparking an international incident. To top it all off, Celia must decide whether "the big step" is the best step at this moment in her life, when she's given the once-in-a-lifetime chance to revive her dancing career on the greatest stages of the world.
Kevin Rush is a former Catholic parochial school and high school teacher. He is an award-winning playwright and screenwriter. His books include Harvesting Eden (2024), Earthquake Weather, a novel for Catholic teens (2000), which Michael Pritchard called "an incredible, thoughtful and brilliant revelation of teenagers in the San Francisco Bay Area," and The Lance and the Veil, an adventure in the time of Christ (20014), hailed as a "big, bold Biblical saga to fire the Christian imagination" (Kirkus Reviews) and a "very welcome and very gripping and very beautiful work of fiction." (Jack Fowler, National Review). Online Book Club called his third novel, The Wedding Routine (2021), an "amazing book" with "a lot of dynamic characters" whose interactions "produce nothing but comic gold." Comedic actress Laura Orrico said The Wedding Routine is "real, raw and heartwarmingly funny. In the 'song and dance' of life, this lovely story teaches how to lead with your heart. It showcases how helping people not only benefits those receiving but is therapeutic for those who give." More of his writings can be found at kevinrush.us and his author page on Amazon.com.
