The Fiancé Dilemma
By Elena Armas
Simon & Schuster
ISBN: 978-1-3985-2224-4
413pp.

Elena Armas, author of The Fiancé Dilemma, is a chemical engineer by profession. According to her own admission, she is a hopeless romantic and an avid reader of ‘HEAS’, or ‘Happily Ever After Stories.’ While working as an engineer, she decided to write one of her favourite type of books herself. She produced her debut novel in 2021 and titled it The Spanish Love Deception.

Armas self-published the book and, because she had been blogging, she knew how to market and promote it. Someone read the novel and posted the plot on TikTok. It garnered six million views and the book shot up to the top 100 slot on Amazon. At that point, Simon and Schuster stepped forward and undertook to publish The Spanish Love Deception under their imprint. Since then, Elena Armas has been producing a bestseller every year.

The Fiancé Dilemma, the author’s fourth book, is a rewrite of the 1999 film Runaway Bride but with an ending of her own choice. In Armas’ version, Josie, the protagonist of the story, is brought up by a single mother who dies when Josie is 17. Now grown up, Josie owns and runs a café in the small town of which she is also the mayor. But she has some unresolved issues, because she has been engaged to four different men in her young life. One of her fiancés dumped her but as for the other three, she left them standing at the altar and absconded.

Most of the secondary characters in the novel are the ones introduced in The Long Game, an........

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