Alina Ellwood

Coming Soon I Do... Not Know Where the Groom Is A missing groom. A complicated weekend. And a romance neither of them saw coming. Add to Goodreads Iris Carter has spent years learning to read a room. As head sommelier at one of London’s finest restaurants, she knows within thirty seconds what a table needs, what it is hiding, and what it will cost her to give it. People are not so different from wine, in her experience. You learn to assess them quickly and trust your first impression. Then she arrives at Blackthorn Manor for her best friend’s wedding and meets the brother of the groom. Thomas is not what she expected. Neither is the weekend. When the groom disappears the morning before the ceremony, Iris and Thomas are thrown together in the particular way that crises throw people: too close, too fast, with ...

Hi, I’m Alina. I write contemporary romance about people who are trying to get their lives together while making a spectacular mess of their love lives. I’ve always been fascinated by the small things that happen between people. The conversation that goes slightly wrong. The text you read three times before deciding what it means. The friend who knows you’re in trouble before you do. The moment when you realise you’ve been thinking about someone far more than is sensible. My stories tend to begin there. I like romance with plenty of feeling, but I also like it to be funny. Real life rarely gives us a soundtrack and a perfectly timed declaration of love. Sometimes you fall for someone while you're worrying about work, eating toast over the kitchen sink, or insisting to your friends that you are absolutely not interested in him . "Which, in my experience, is ...

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