June is the time for me to revisit this favorite on my keeper shelf. Bet Me is a modern day fairy tale about love and gambling and food and body image and the things families do to each other even when they don't mean to. Cal makes a bet that he can get Min to leave the bar with him even though she just got dumped by her boyfriend. Min overhears the bet and decides to take Cal for the perverbial ride so that she can have a gorgeous date to her sister's wedding. Min's rage over being dumped scares Cal away and Cal's Charm Boy persona is everything Min knows will break her heart. The two can't seem to stay away from each other though and as they learn more about who the other really is deep down inside they each try to figure out how to get to the Happily Ever After.

The subtitle wraps this up nicely "Life, Love and Faith in Stages" from Chenoweth's upbringing in Oklahoma, her love of singing, her love of family and her faith. All stories come back to these themes. The rest is gravy but it's incredibly fun and tasty gravy. Stories about her constant runner-up status in the pageants that paid for her to study opera, her move to Broadway, then TV and her on-again, off-again relationship with Mr. Writer. You will laugh and you will cry and you will be entertained the entire time. I kid you not!

Sookie Stackhouse has a front row seat to the Great Reveal - the night the Weres come out to the world - as her boss turns into a collie right there in the bar! But this is a small town and not everyone likes the idea of their neighbors having fur. Sookies comes under suspicion from the FBI, Jason's wife is murdered horribly, she's symbolically married to one of her former vampire boyfriends [I won't say which one!] and this is before the half-way point of the book. Harris keeps us hopping as the Fairies attack and it's not pretty. Lots of plots get dealt with so don't miss this installment of the Southern Vampire series.

Roberts' first book in the Bride Quartet begins a new series about four childhood friends who grow up to start a wedding business together. Mackenzie Elliot throws herself into her photography to distance her heart from her mother issues and the abandonment of her trust-fund father. She is pursued by Carter Maguire - a stable PhD in English who had a high school crush on Mac. Carter tries to help Mac see that life can be just as wonderful untouched in the darkroom and even if it is unfocused and messy - it's always better with someone who truly loves you.