Latest novel from Anna Holmes!

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When your uncle won’t stop doing drunk handstands at your wedding, you send in your best friends to get him off the dance floor.

When vengeful former lovers, malicious spirits, and demons threaten the whole day (or the world), you hire these a-holes.

Cassandra Friend, aloof head mercenary of the Friend Event Company, has seen it all. From her own crew—a devil, a witch, her adoptive sister, and a massive brawler called Bjorn—to spiteful mothers-in-law to fey abductions mid-vows to hellmouths threatening to swallow groomsmen. That’s just what happens when powerful entities try to seize on the magical potential that emotional human life events create. But even she with her jaded worldview is surprised when she receives an invitation from reclusive nobleman Alexander Fremont, shrouded in secrecy and tinged with the scent of more money than the bridal party has ever had.

Reluctantly intrigued, she meets with the lord. Instead of a socially inept hermit, he turns out to be both charming and suspiciously evasive. Cass’ characteristic paranoia rages—especially as he reveals the job. Safeguard the city-state’s Crown Prince’s wedding to the princess of an allied kingdom, take no other commissions for a set time, become nearly impossibly wealthy.

It’s hard to turn down. But a prince has many enemies, mundane and supernatural. Quickly demonic forces reveal themselves preparing to take advantage of the unusual marriage, but as far as Cass is concerned, the greater threat may be the closest of all. The quick-on-his-feet, quick-with-a-smile best man who hired her group of nobodies keeps to himself, but is plenty happy to enjoy her company and advise the would-be king…all while disappearing at unusual times.

To save the wedding, her home, and her friends, Cass must unravel the web of secrecy binding Amaranth from top to bottom—the very bottom.

For Cassandra Friend, nothing is quite as hellish as standing up in someone’s wedding.

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