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Rayne Connors and Madison Howlett have four months to get married, then a further deadline for pregnancy: their grandmother has attached those conditions to a $300 million inheritance. Rayne’s new romance gives her sister something to sabotage.
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What makes it funny?
Madison approaches the family contest with extravagant entitlement and increasingly outrageous schemes. Private resentments become a competition with money, romance and far too much incentive to interfere.
The comedy at work
The inheritance rule turns marriage into a race, then gives every romantic development an opponent. As Rayne moves forward, Madison finds another way to obstruct her.
Try this if…
For readers who enjoy rich relatives behaving badly, elaborate sabotage and the excesses of a television soap.
Good to know
The campy scheming shares space with more serious attention to Rayne’s relationships and doubts. Kirkus notes that these shifts can be abrupt.
A few distinguishing details
- An inheritance decided by marriage and pregnancy
- Two wealthy New York sisters in escalating competition
More funny family comedy
Sources & further reading
- Library festival author biography
Library catalog
- Kirkus Indie review
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