The Trouble With Love: A Christian Romantic Comedy (The Murphy Girls Book 1)

Sophie Keller can rescue a wedding from forty-three lit candles in under a minute. So why can’t she handle one polite man in a charcoal suit?

Sophie has run every wedding in Bellview, Tennessee for fourteen years, and she has never once cried at any of them. She has a clipboard for the flowers, a clipboard for the toasts, and a system that has never failed her. She can recite First Corinthians thirteen backward while doing payroll and feel absolutely nothing.

She considers that a feature.

Then Drew Chambers stands up in the back pew and takes out an entire unity candle display with one gallant elbow.

He is charming. He is mortified. He is a divorce attorney who has just opened an office one block from the bridal district — which, as the whole town keeps pointing out, is like opening a bait shop in an aquarium. Sophie plans weddings. Drew has spent eight years billing by the end of them. There is not a version of this that ends quietly.

Bellview picks sides before the two of them can. The bridal shops circulate opinions. The casseroles start arriving with agendas. And somewhere between a flooded reception hall and a second Sunday in a pew with no clipboard in her lap, Sophie hears a sermon on the ten bridesmaids and their lamps, and something she has kept bolted shut for fourteen years comes quietly loose.

Drew is coming apart too, in his own way — because a town this small will eventually ask a man to say out loud what he actually believes, and Drew Chambers is about to discover he can’t keep taking marriages apart for a living and still believe God puts them together. Answering that honestly is going to cost him his practice, and possibly her.

So what happens when the man who spent eight years watching forever fail is the first person who ever asked Sophie to put the clipboard down?

The Trouble With Love is a Christian romantic comedy and the first book in The Murphy Girls series — clean, Christ-centered, with a happily-ever-after and no cliffhanger.