Melissa Senate

The Love Goddess' Cooking School

by Melissa Senate

Camilla’s Cucinotta: Italian Cooking Classes. Fresh take-home pastas & sauces dailyBenvenuti! (Welcome!)

Holly Maguire’s grandmother Camilla was the Love Goddess of Blue Crab Island, Maine—a Milanese fortune-teller...

The Secret of Joy

by Melissa Senate

IS THE HALF SISTER THAT REBECCA STRAND

HAS NEVER MET SHORT? TALL? RICH? POOR? PRETTY?

FUNNY? MARRIED? LONELY? HAPPY?...

Rebecca is about to find out. The New York City paralegal thought nothing could shake...

Whose Wedding Is It Anyway?

by Melissa Senate

Eloise Manfred just sold her soul to the wedding devil.

In exchange for a free $100,000 dream wedding, she'll be featured in a trendy magazine as "Today's Modern Bride." So what if the advertisers dictate what...

The Solomon Sisters Wise Up

by Melissa Senate

Between the reality of being six weeks pregnant by a guy she's dated for two months and the fantasy of pushing a baby stroller down Columbus Avenue with a wedding ring on her finger were a lot of possibilities...

See Jane Date

by Melissa Senate

A Fancy Affair Bridal Salon

Forest Hills, Queens

"Did you know that one of your hips is higher than the other?"the seamstress asked me in a totally conversational tone.

"I didn't," I said. "I never knew that. But...

Questions to Ask Before Marrying

by Melissa Senate

A New York Times article lists fifteen questions couples should ask before marrying

Ruby Miller and her fiance, Tom Truby, have questions 1 to 14 almost covered. It's question 15 that has the Maine schoolteacher...

Love You to Death

by Melissa Senate

When did Abby Foote's life become an episode of Law & Order?

First, a former boyfriend (who dumped Abby in the most humiliating way imaginable) is found murdered the day his engagement is announced.

Then two...

The Breakup Club

by Melissa Senate

Meet the Members of the Breakup Club…

Lucy Miller-Masterson: Superstar editor of bestselling books, supermom to a precocious preteen and superwife of a hot doctor…until she learns her husband's New Year's resolution...

Theodora Twist

by Melissa Senate

“I’m going to have to come up with something really good to get you back into the public’s good graces. I have no idea what, but trust me. I’ll think of something.”

Well that’s what Theodora pays...

The Mosts

by Melissa Senate

Madeline finished freshman year at Freeport Academy just as invisible as when she started. But after a summer in Italy with her sophisticated aunt, she returned as a sophomore with cool clothes, European attitude,...