Kim Gruenenfelder

WHAT WOULD YOU DO IF YOUR EX SUDDENLY REAPPEARED?It's 1998, and Samantha Evans has no regrets about her life. She's one of Hollywood's most sought after ghostwriters of celebrity autobiographies, shares a tranquil house in the hills with her best friend Liz, and is in the throes of a new romance with Eric, a gorgeous doctor. Life could not be better.But Sam's perfectly curated world is about to completely unravel. Her descent into madness begins the night she meets Eric's childhood best friend, international superstar Isabella Robles. A narcissist prone to temper tantrums, "Belle" is in town for her latest (and fifth) "wedding of the century." To make matters worse, she is marrying Dave, Sam's ex-husband. Things quickly go from awkward to just plain weird. Isabella hires Sam to write her memoirs. Then makes her a bridesmaid. Then cajoles Sam to join Dave in Hawaii for his bachelor party. Adding to the chaos, Sam bickers with Joe, Dave's best man and the bane of Sam's existence, receives unsolicited advice from client Vanessa, a diva from the '80s, and tries to stay calm as a series of fortune tellers mess with her head.So maybe no one's life goes according to plan. Maybe some days you gotta suck it up and go to your Ex's Wedding. And maybe finding the love of your life isn't accomplished through a series of steps, but through a really ugly bridesmaid's dress and an open bar.

Three best friends decide to open a wine bar in Echo Park LA, where they encounter the trials and tribulations of dating, love, and life in Kim Gruenenfelder's Love the Wine You're With. "Balancing moments of profound wisdom with pithy observations, Love the Wine You're With will brighten your day faster than a glass of chardonnay." --Jennifer Lancaster, New York Times bestselling author of Bitter Is the New Black and The Tao of Martha "Gruenenfelder's women are smart, likable and good to each other." --Kirkus Reviews Jessie is finally about to realize her life-long goal of owning her own house, the first step to a wonderful marriage, kids, and life with her boyfriend of three years, Kevin; except after they find the perfect place, Kevin suddenly gets cold feet. Nat is having a passionate affair with her gorgeous British boss Marc--unfortunately, he's married. Now what? Holly is an actress who still waits tables to pay the bills, and who is coping with the recent loss of her father. A particularly bad audition, where she snaps and tells off a big director, leads her to wonder what to do when you stop loving what you do. (And also what to do about her hot neighbor. Because, you know, hot neighbor.) After each girl finishes a particularly awful workday, the three friends meet at their favorite wine bar, which has been sold by its owner for a huge profit and will close that night. In a moment of tipsy brazenness, Jessie suggests that the three of them open their own wine bar in the gentrifying Echo Park area of Los Angeles. An unapologetically girly place for good wine and good friends--which leads to a challenge for each woman: how do you fix a life that's not actually broken, but needs an upgrade?

In "Keep Calm and Carry a Big Drink," Kim Gruenenfelder's delicious follow-up to "There's Cake in My Future," Seema, Nic and Mel are back, adjusting to their new lives as a bride-to-be, a mother-to-be, and a recently single girl looking for love It's been almost a year since Mel, Nic and Seema pulled their magical charms out of the cake at Nic's bridal shower and most of their happily-ever-afters seemingly came true. Seema is about to marry Scott in an elaborate three-day affair. Nic is glowingly pregnant. And Mel... well, Mel feels as if she accidentally veered off the rails of her life at some point and isn't sure how to get back on. She recently became single again, she's been threatened with a layoff from her teaching job, and she has to find her own place now that Scott is moving in with her roommate, Seema.Nic thinks Mel just needs a new cake charm to bring her good luck. . . and decides to rig the cake pull at Seema's bridal shower. Desperate for travel, Mel asks for the passport charm. But, once again, the cake proves to have a mind of its own, and she pulls a charm she doesn't want, and can not use. Rather than be bound by the charm's prophecy, Mel realizes she, and she alone, is responsible for her destiny. A spur of the moment decision takes her to Paris and then Maui, where she finds herself on an adventure that she never could have imagined, experiencing the trials and tribulations of a life suddenly and perfectly unplanned. And, along the way, she begins to learn that, however nonsensical it may seem, the cake is never wrong...

Finding Mr Right and saying ‘yes’ was just the beginning… Nicole has a wedding to organise, but first she has a cake to bake. After listening to her closest friends’ latest troubles, bride-to-be Nicole believes she has the perfect recipe for everyone’s happiness. So she sets to work on a hen party “cake pull” in which each ribboned silver charm planted in her cake will bring its recipient the magic she needs to change her destiny. Melissa, still ringless after dating the same man for six years, deserves the engagement ring charm. The red hot chilli pepper would be perfect for Seema, who is in love with her best friend Scott, but can’t seem to make their relationship more than platonic. And out-of-work journalist Nicole wants the shovel, which symbolizes hard work, to help her get her career back on track. But when the charmed cake is mysteriously shifted from the place settings Nicole arranged, no one gets the charm she chose for them. And when the other party guests’ fortunes begin coming true, Mel, Seema, and Nicole can’t help but wonder… Is the cake trying to tell them something? *Please note that this is the UK edition - in the US, the title of this book is ‘There’s Cake in My Future’*

Struggling to deal with serving as maid of honor at her younger sister's wedding, turning thirty, and her demanding job as personal assistant to Hollywood's sexiest movie star, Drew Stanton, Charlize "Charlie" Edwards begins to reevaluate her life, while developing a serious crush on Jordan, a photographer on the set of Drew's latest film. Original. 100,000 first printing.