Bride Needs Groom - Softcover

Dominick Chickalini is the quintessential bachelor: a gorgeous playboy who can charm his way out of-or into-any and every situation. He's always rejoiced in his bachelorhood. In fact, he's on his way to Las Vegas for a decadent weekend of drinking, flirting, and gambling. But as he boards the plane, he can't help but be reminded that the entire world is coupled. His siblings, his best friend, every attractive woman he flirts with at the airport-they're all married. Determined to push it out of his mind, he moves over to his seat and almost falls over. For there, sitting at the window seat, is the most stunning woman he has ever seen...and she's wearing a wedding dress.

Mia Calogera has to get married. It's not her biological clock and it's not because she fell in love. Her strong-willed and incredibly wealthy grandfather threatened to cut Mia off financially if she didn't marry before his 85th birthday. As much as she hates to admit it, she's become accustomed to the finer things in life and she just can't go back to working two jobs and going to school at night again. So she's hatched a plan that is fool-proof: she found a man named Derek over the Internet who has agreed to a marriage of convenience beginning that very evening with a ceremony in Vegas. Never mind that Mia hasn't ever met Derek in person. Never mind that Mia doesn't love Derek. After all, she's seen first hand with her parents how love can sour and she doesn't want to go through that herself.

But suddenly, sitting next to Dominick on the plane, her stomach can't stop doing flip-flops. So when Mia's wedding plans go awry and Dom needs to borrow money, Mia has the perfect way for him to pay her back. But will the eternal bachelor succumb to the bride's plan?

Wendy Corsi Staub, who also writes as Wendy Markham, is an incredibly prolific writer who has penned a diverse number of books, from young adult, to suspense thrillers, to ghostwriting for Fabio, to

co-authoring with Ed Koch. She lives in upstate New York with her husband and children.