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The Marriage Pact

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This debut by M.J. Pullen launches a charming series about a group of thirty-somethings in Atlanta making surprising discoveries about friendship, love, and happily-ever-after.

Marci Thompson always knew what life would be like by her 30th birthday. A large but cozy suburban home shared with a charming husband and two brilliant children. A celebrated career as a writer, complete with mahogany shelves and a summer book tour. A life full of adventure with her friends and family by her side.

Instead, Marci lives alone in 480 square feet of converted motel space next to a punk rock band, hundreds of miles from her friends and family. She works in a temporary accounting assignment that has somehow stretched from two weeks into nine months. And the only bright spot in her life, not to mention the only sex she's had in two years, is an illicit affair with her married boss, Doug.

Thirty is not at all what it is cracked up to be.

Then the reappearance of an old friend with whom she had made a drunken marriage pact ten years earlier opens a long-forgotten door, and the lines between right and wrong, heartache and happiness are all about to get very blurry, as Marci faces the most difficult choices of her life.

The Marriage Pact is a delightful debut that will have readers laughing, crying, and falling completely in love.

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    • Library Journal

      November 1, 2015

      Life isn't going as planned for 30-year-old Marci Thompson. Instead of the lucrative career, sexy husband, and budding family she imagined she'd have by this age, she's stuck working as a temp and sleeping with her married boss. Released as an e-original in 2011, Pullen's debut novel chronicles Marci's crisis when she realizes her lover will never truly belong to her, and that her future is bleak unless she makes some changes. Fleeing her current reality, Marci moves back to her hometown and the comfort of her two best friends, Suzanne and Jake. Jake is quick to remind her of the pact they made in college: if they're both single at 30, they'll marry each other. Despite a tragedy that brings Jake and Marci together more than ever before, a ghost from Marci's past reemerges to foil their well-laid plans. VERDICT With a plot taken straight from My Best Friend's Wedding, this novel is chick lit to its core and makes for a light and easy read.--Chelsie Harris, San Diego Cty. Lib.

      Copyright 2015 Library Journal, LLC Used with permission.

    • Booklist

      October 1, 2015
      In this charming cross between romance and chick lit, Marci Thompson is unhappy with the fact that, with her thirtieth birthday approaching, she is single, living in a studio apartment, and working a temp job. Oh, and having an affair with her married boss. When her boss reveals he can't leave his wife because she's pregnant, Marci heads back home to Atlanta, where her old group of friends, including the handsome Jake, is waiting for her. Jake is ready to pick up where they left offhe still has the signed bar-napkin agreement that declares Marci will marry him if they are still single when they hit the big 3-0. But Marci's been stung too many times and is full of anxieties. As the two of them tentatively approach loveeven going as far as getting engagedMarci realizes this is not a game, and it's time to grow up. Pullen's characters are realistic, and the dialogue is funny, making this an excellent choice for fans of early Jane Green, Jennifer Weiner, and Emily Giffin.(Reprinted with permission of Booklist, copyright 2015, American Library Association.)

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