![]() ![]() Making the most of their scenario, Alexa forages through her bag and takes out the champagne and cheese meant for the pregame at her sister’s, partly at the goading of Drew. Moments later, they realize that the entire hotel has lost power. ![]() Alexa surreptitiously appraises him and realizes she is attracted to him. She suddenly becomes aware that there is a man in the elevator with her bemused, he introduces himself as Drew Nichols. ![]() Doubly anxious about being late and ruminating on her fraught relationship with her sister, she runs into an elevator just before it halts, suspended between two floors. ![]() Alexa, who works as the chief of staff for the city’s mayor, rushes to join her sister, who is visiting the city in celebration of her promotion at a law firm in New York City. The novel opens on an ordinary weekend night in San Francisco. Though they nearly slip away from each other, Alexa and Drew learn to negotiate their career goals and personal biases, building harmony despite their unorthodox relationship. The chance encounter causes them to string each other along in a romance, leading to a series of encounters in which certain idealizations about each other break down. They meet serendipitously in an elevator in San Francisco, leading Drew to invite her on a date to his friend’s wedding. A modern recapitulation of the “star-crossed lovers” plot, American author Jasmine Guillory’s romance novel The Wedding Date follows two career-focused adults, Alexa Monroe and Drew Nichols, who live at opposite ends of California. ![]()
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