Zach takes over sending the invitations, Tom works with the wedding theme designer while Dee and Audrey and Summer and Jenny pick out their multi-hued bridal finery. Her parents finally cave and Jenny begins to rush around–late again– for one of the most important days of her life.

She intimates in her fight with Mom that in accordance with their strongly maintained family beliefs she’s still a virgin, but that that’s likely to change in the next month, whether she wears a veil and stands before a minister or not. Jenny has grown stronger and kinder since the first book, but she still has flashes of temper. (In different versions, she varies from 18 to 20–but anyway, her parents think her too young.) Jenny and her mom have a fight, Jenny storming that she’s been in love with Tom since elementary school and her parents got married after knowing each other only six months. So far, what I can tell you is that the story starts the week when Jenny is about to marry Tom. Or it may be the work of the other Shadow Men (after all, they’re all older and more wicked.)

Of course it may be stuff Julian’s doing himself, or it may be something he set off without meaning to. Right now, though, I’m researching for the “external plot”–the stuff that is happening around Julian and Jenny. From LJ Smith: It’s no joke that I’m writing a sequel to THE FORBIDDEN GAME, but the timing and form of the sequel may change slightly depending on the advice of my new agent.

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