Gillian Archer

A Holiday Mode novella Every girl deserves a fairytale. I just didn’t expect mine to happen at that summer festival and definitely not with a rock star. My life hasn’t turned out the way I’d hoped. My wonderful dad died and left everything to my wicked stepmother.

What happens on tour doesn’t stay on tour. Not when she’s your best friend’s little sister. She’s the definition of forbidden—my best friend’s little sister. I’ve done my best to put distance between us. Ella is just too damn tempting. Good thing she’s going on tour with us.

The holidays are usually lonely, but this December I have a fling with a rock star. My life has imploded. So it feels fitting to be living back at my parents’ home in South Lake Tahoe. Is a quarter-life crisis a thing?

I went to Vegas to get married, only she married someone else, so why shouldn’t I do the same? It’s the best way to stop public speculation about my jilted groom status. But even better, something about Shay has flipped a switch inside me—suddenly I can write music again.

Lauren is watching a happy couple at their combined bachelor/bachelorette party - while she sits all alone at the bar - until she spots a hot stranger with the telltale black handkerchief in his pocket....