Kim Gruenenfelder Ordre des livres (chronologique)

After listening to her closest friends' latest travails in love, parenting and careers, superstitious bride-to-be Nicole (Nic) believes she has the perfect recipe for everyone's happiness: a bridal shower 'cake pull' in which each beribboned silver charm planted in her cake will bring its recipient the magical assistance she needs to change her destiny. Melissa still ringless after dating the same man for six years, deserves the engagement ring charm. The red hot chili pepper would be perfect for Seema, who is in love with her best male friend Scott, but can't seem to make their relationship more than platonic. And recently laid off journalist Nic wants the shovel, which symbolises hard work and fulfillment, to help her get her career back on track. Nic does everything she can to control who gets which silver keepsake - as well as the future it represents. But when the charmed cake is mysteriously shifted from the place settings Nic arranged around it, no one gets the charm she chose for them. And when the other party guests' fortunes begin coming true, Mel, Seema, and Nic can't help but wonder.... Is the cake trying to tell them something?

'I am sitting on my living room sofa, trying to give advice to a great grandniece I've never met. I started out writing to my great granddaughter. But the way my love life's going lately, the poor dear is nothing more than a pipe dream. I'm now betting on my engaged sister's chances of procreation - hence, the great grandniece. What am I writing? Pretty much anything I wish I had known at sixteen, and wish I could force myself to remember at twenty-nine...Some days are a total waste of make-up ' Charlize Charlie Edwards certainly knows what it takes to lead a successful and happy life. She owns a nice house in LA's trendiest neighborhood, has a group of glamorous and loyal friends who accompany her to the hottest clubs in town, and she works as the personal assistant to Hollywood's sexiest - and most insecure - movie star. But she's also turning 30, chronically single, and faced with serving time as matron of honor at her younger sister's wedding. Charlie finds herself juggling her eccentric family, all-consuming job and lunatic boss, and a serious crush on a man who might actually return her feelings. of advice that she can't seem to follow and end up finding love almost in spite of herself.