Contents

Also by Melissa de La Cruz

Part One: False Starts

One: Last-Minute Preparations

Three: Last-Minute Cancellations

Four: Mall Rats

Five: Early Arrivals

Six: Some Kind of Something

Seven: Twin Terrors

Eight: Food Fights

Nine: Cocktail Hour and the Billionaire Problem

Ten: Mountain Dew and Vodka

Eleven: No Such Thing as Bullying in Private Schools

Twelve: Friends in High Places

Thirteen: Whores d’Oeuvres

Fourteen: Poppers in the Alley

Fifteen: Exes and Ohs, Part One

Sixteen: Exes and Ohs, Part Two

Part Two: The Main Course

Seventeen: Dairy Queen(s)

Eighteen: Dinner Is Served

Nineteen: Dancing Queens (16)

Twenty: Pianos and Sopranos

Twenty-one: Watch That Scene

Twenty-two: Slideshow and Tears

Twenty-three: Truth or Dare

Twenty-four: Four and Twenty

Twenty-five: Dare

Twenty-six: Brandy and Cigars

Twenty-seven: Double Dare

Twenty-eight: Vanities

Twenty-nine: Truth

Part Three: Just Desserts

Thirty-one: Hell Hath No Fury

Thirty-two: Old Dames

Thirty-three: No Fury

Thirty-four: Old Flames

Thirty-five: Two Can Keep a Secret

Thirty-six: So Many Old Flames

Thirty-seven: If One of Them Is Dead

Thirty-eight: After

Thirty-nine: After After

Forty: First Comes Love

Forty-one: Old Flames (3)

Forty-two: Truth (2)

Forty-three: Never Say Goodbye

Forty-four: The Birthday Girl

Acknowledgments

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