Love Bomb
A Novel by Lisa Zeidner
2012 / 272 Pages

Tess and Gabe’s wedding day has finally arrived, and the young couple has gathered with their closest friends and relatives in Tess’s childhood home for the ceremony.  But just moments before the bride and groom say their vows, the wedding is interrupted by a mysterious and terrifying woman wearing a wedding dress, a gas mask, and armed with a bomb and a shotgun.  When the guests finally realize that the woman’s presence is not part of some sort of creative and artistic wedding performance, everyone flies into a panicked frenzy.

But Tess and Gabe have many psychiatrists on the guest list, and as the hostage situation worsens, the doctors do their best to analyze and diagnose the uninvited psychotic guest.  As the psychiatrists try and fail to mentally overpower the woman, Tess’s mother, Helen, finds another way to relate to the “terrorist” – by talking to her and treating her like a real person.  Over the course of seven hours, approximately 60 people are held hostage in Helen’s living room, and they’re all trying to figure out who to blame for the unfortunate presence of the “Art Bride / Terrorist.”  Is she someone’s ex-lover?  A distant relative? Perhaps she is stalking Gabe’s B-list actress sister and her B+ list actor boyfriend.  Or perhaps the guests are all victims of a completely random act of violence and terror.  In order to sort things out, truths must be told, secrets must be revealed, and fates must be forever altered (pun intended!).

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