Whose Bride Is She Anyway
by Dakota Cassidy
Whose Bride Is She Anyway? is the most popular reality show on TV, featuring a bride, twenty potential hunk 'o licious grooms, a jury, and a whole lot of cash at the end of the matrimonial aisle. The rules? Spend a month on a tropical island (as if you didn't know that) and let a jury of your peers and one high school friend choose your man for life. If you can manage to stay married for a year¬ you get the booty. A million bucks. Tara Douglas doesn't care about the booty. Once taunted and humiliated for being an overweight geek, Tara is now a svelte thirty-something looking for revenge and it ain't as the bride. The bride is Kelsey Little, ex Evanston High cheerleader and all 'round bitch. Kelsey was responsible for Tara's ultimate humiliation in high school. Tara wants to be picked to become jury foreman and head up the groom-picking task force, choosing a groom that will leave Kelsey cryin' in her Miss Clairol. Her quest for revenge takes an unexpected course when she meets August Guthrie, a contestant on the show. August is the forbidden fruit¬--jury members aren't supposed to dip their hand in the hunk jar and Tara could be caught elbow deep, not only in August Guthrie heaven, but in the guilt she begins to feel for ever wanting petty revenge. August, a former dork himself, came to Whose Bride Is She Anyway? to win the woman he thought was his high school wet dream. He wants to prove to Kelsey that he's no longer just the A he helped her get in English and guess what? August ain't a geek anymore either. Then he meets Tara Douglas and all of a sudden, the ex pom-pom queen of August's lusty, adolescent dreams becomes a big, fat, blonde nightmare. Tara and Augustshare chemistry, hell they have biology and trigonometry too, and it's a force that can't be denied, unless little things like sabotage, treachery, deceit, clandestine meetings and an airtight contract that could leave you bankrupt with the paparazzi breathing down your neck for an eternity are a problem?