A reluctant groom and an impulsive one… Jason Manning is content with his life as a bachelor, a slob and a sports fan. Then a precocious teen named Carrie Weston decides to play matchmaker, introducing him to her mother. To his relief, Charlotte is as uninterested in marriage as he is. But Jason's feelings start to change once he gets to know his Bride on the Loose. James Wilkens was almost a Manning groom—because he almost married one of the Manning sisters. With that broken engagement behind him, he spends New Year's Eve in Las Vegas…where he meets Summer Lawton. She's just suffered a painful betrayal, and James promises her that in a year she'll be over it. To prove his point, he makes a date to meet her in Vegas Same Time, Next Year. Except it turns out to be more than a date—it's a wedding!

Will time prove him right? On New Year's Eve in Las Vegas, dignified judge James Wilkens impulsively rescues a beautiful damsel in distress. Summer Lawton has just suffered a painful betrayal, but James promises her that in a year she'll be over it. To prove his point, he makes a date to meet her in Vegas in a year's time. But what happens in Vegas does not stay there. With all the odds against them, will James and Summer still be together at the same time next year?

Jason Manning is content with his life as a bachelor, a slob and a sports fan. Then a precocious girl named Carrie Weston decides to play matchmaker, introducing him to her mother, Charlotte. To his relief, Charlotte is as averse to marriage as he is. But Jason's feelings start to change once he gets to know his Bride on the Loose. James Wilkens was almost a Manning groom—because he almost married one of the Manning sisters. With that broken engagement behind him, he spends New Year's Eve in Las Vegas…where he meets Summer Lawton. She's just suffered a painful betrayal, and James promises her that in a year, she'll be over it. To prove his point, he makes a date to meet her in Vegas Same Time, Next Year. Except it turns out to be more than a date—it's a wedding!

When Seattle city gal Taylor Manning takes a teaching job in rural Montana, she finds the man of her dreams; and when her sister Christy comes to visit, she has to deal with the sizzle she feels when she meets the town sheriff.

A two-in-one volume. In Bride on the Loose, Jason Manning is content with his life as a bachelor, a slob and a sports fan. Then a precocious girl named Carrie Weston decides to play matchmaker, introducing him to her mother, Charlotte. In Same, Time Next Year James Wilkens spends New Year's Eve in Las Vegas ... where he meets Summer Lawton after his broken engagement to a Manning sister.

Offers a detailed cultural history of weddings in America from 1945 to 2000, exploring the political, social, economic, and demographic events that influenced the traditions and cost associated with weddings in the post-war years.