Unending: A Sweet Contemporary Christian Romance (The Unscripted Series Book 5)

Four Brides. Four sets of vows. One God who wrote it all.

Ten days before the wedding, Zuri Aneke arrives at Lake Como with four garment bags and a secret. For four months, she has been designing the wedding dresses for her three best friends — in private, by hand, every stitch a love letter to women who have held her up since they were eighteen years old. Hadley doesn’t know. Viv doesn’t know. Sera doesn’t know.

The reveal is the easy part. The hard part is the dress Zuri hasn’t designed yet. Her own.

Hadley Calloway is terrified she’ll disappear into marriage the way her mother did — that the writer who turned down twenty million dollars to protect a story will go quiet the moment she becomes a wife. Vivienne Marchetti is bracing for the eyes of an Italian family that has spent two years deciding whether the English outsider belongs at their table. Sera Delgado is learning how to be a stepmother to a seven-year-old who has already lost one. And Zuri is trying to figure out who she is when she finally sets the armor down.

Across the lake, in a smaller villa they’ve taken over completely, four men are forming a brotherhood the only way men ever do — by fixing a railing together at sunrise, by drinking espresso in companionable silence, by writing vows on napkins at Lucia’s kitchen table. Ethan, Sandro, Quinn, and Nolan. A teacher, a theater restorer, an architect, a curator. Four men who chose four women. Four men who are about to stand in a restored eighteenth-century theater under a painted ceiling and promise forever.

Lucia is cooking. Chiara has a war room. Isabella is presiding from the morning room with a book she isn’t reading. Camila is drinking the coffee and offering opinions. Mrs. Okafor has invited herself and nobody is brave enough to say a word about it. Marisol has decided the estate is where the action is and she is not wrong. Father Matteo is wearing the green cardigan Lucia has been trying to replace since 2005.

And in the middle of all of it — the dress fittings, the matriarch standoffs, the late-night terrace conversations, the brotherhood at the villa, the group chat finally coming alive in person — four women are discovering that the wedding isn’t the climax of their love stories. The proposals were the climax. The wedding is the declaration. The public naming of what was privately chosen. The standing in a room full of people and saying: this is who I am, this is who I love, and I’m not hiding anymore.

Unending is the joyful, tender, laugh-out-loud finale to The Unscripted Series — the book where the friendship that started in a Greenwich Village coffee shop nineteen years ago meets the men who saw past the image, the families who came along for the ride, and the God who has been writing all of it from the beginning.

Four weddings. One ceremony. One forever.

The Unscripted Series:
Book 1: Unbroken (Hadley & Ethan — Vermont)

Book 2: Unrehearsed (Viv & Sandro — Lake Como)

Book 3: Unforgotten (Sera & Quinn — Atlanta)

Book 4: Unashamed (Zuri & Nolan — Washington, D.C.)

Book 5: Unending (Joint Wedding — Lake Como)