I dedicate this work to my future Great Niece or Nephew, who will make his or her appearance at roughly the same time as this book. You have five brothers, so naturally your mommy is hoping for a girl. Try to work on that okay?

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      Is your ex hanging around and making noise like he wants to reconcile? Does he think he can sweet-talk his way back into your life? Don’t fall for it! Repeat after me: men don’t change.

      —excerpt from The Modern Woman’s Guide to Divorce (And the Joy of Staying Single)

      Ivy Madison was not a violent person, but as the “surprise” man she’d been hearing about for the past three months—the one who looked disturbingly similar to her gazillionaire ex-husband—unfolded his long, lean body from the backseat of the limo, she quietly began plotting her cousin Deidre’s murder.

      No, it couldn’t possibly be him.

      Blake, Deidre’s fiancé, was supposed to be off picking up the best man from the airport. There was no way that the surprise Deidre had repeatedly enticed her with, the mystery best man Ivy was just going to love, was Dillon Marshal! Never in a million years would Deidre expect Ivy to stand up in a wedding, much less spend the week before the ceremony in the Mexican villa, with the biggest mistake who had ever walked in, then walked back out of, her life.

      Would