Abby Gaines

Abby Gaines began her romance career after earlier work in business journalism and editing a New Zealand speedway magazine. Harlequin Superromance published Her Best Friend’s Wedding in 2011 within the multi-author More Than Friends sequence. The story places Sadie Beecham between an old attachment and a surprising new possibility: she believes she loves her best friend’s fiancé, while Trey Kincaid, the bride’s brother, is determined to challenge that conviction. Goodreads places the novel sixth in More Than Friends, and the bibliography at Fantastic Fiction groups it with Gaines’s Harlequin work, her NASCAR stories, and the Those Merritt Girls series. Gaines builds the conflict from long familiarity rather than instant attraction, using Trey’s revised view of the formerly studious girl next door to unsettle both characters’ assumptions. Her Best Friend’s Wedding reflects her characteristic interest in humorous, tender relationships, especially the moment when people who believe they understand one another discover that affection has made their judgments much less reliable.