Southern Bombshell A wedding planner with a carefully guarded secret—she's been hopelessly in love with Nate Kingsley for years—thought she'd moved on after he ghosted her without explanation. But when he walks into her office two years later, engaged to a wealthy client who's demanding the wedding of the century, all those buried feelings come rushing back. As she plans the most important event of her career, the chemistry between them is undeniable, and the secrets they've kept hidden start unraveling in ways neither of them expected. Now she's caught between her professional reputation, her client's demands, and the one man she can't have—even if everything inside her is screaming that they belong together.

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Sultry indie-pop and soulful R&B with an undercurrent of tension. Think smoldering chemistry, buried longing, and small-town secrets. Mix Phoebe Bridgers' melancholy with SZA's sensuality—acoustic vulnerability bleeding into magnetic pull. Bittersweet, charged, inevitable.

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