Thorn's Challenge
Chapter One
Tara Matthews hated weddings.
She had done a pretty good job of avoiding them until she had met the Westmorelands. Since
then she had attended two weddings within an eighteen-month period. She'd had even been
maid of honor when her good friend, Delaney Westmoreland, had married a desert sheikh
almost a year and a half ago.
And today, like everyone else in the grand ballroom of the Sheraton Hotel in downtown Atlanta,
she had come to celebrate the wedding of Delaney's brother, Dare Westmoreland to the
woman he loved, Shelly Brockman.
The worst part, Tara thought as she glanced around her, was that she couldn't really complain
about having to attend the weddings. Not when the Westmorelands had become the closest
thing to a family she'd had since that fateful day in June two years ago. It was to have been her
wedding day, but she had stood at the altar in complete shock after the groom, the man she had
loved, who she thought had loved her, had announced to all three hundred guests that he
couldn't go through with the wedding because he was in love with her maid of honor - the
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