title: EverSweet: A Love Story From Ivy Log
author: Sue Chamblin Frederick
description: She is known as a sweet Southern belle, a woman whose eyelashes are longer than her fingers, her lips as red as a Georgia sunset. Yet, behind the feminine facade of a Scarlett-like ingnue lies an absolute and utterly calculating mind  a mind that harbors hints of genius  a genius she uses to write books that will leave you spellbound. Her Spy Thrillers - a warning! Shes dangerous - only six degrees from a life filled with unimaginable adventures  journeys that will plunge her readers into a world of breath-taking intrigue. Put a Walther PPK pistol in her hand and she will kill you. Her German is so precise shed fool Hitler. Her amorous prowess? If you have a secret, she will discover it  one way or the other. Her Romance Novels  fall in love with characters who are not fantasy, but real, down-to-earth people who discover that its never too late for love . . .or lust. Humorous, captivating and lovable. The author was born in north Florida in the little town of Live Oak, where the nearby Suwannee River flows the color of warm caramel, in a three-room, tin-roofed house named poor. Her Irish mothers and English fathers voices can be heard even today as they sweep across the hot tobacco fields of Suwannee County, Susie, child, you must stop telling all those wild stories. She lives in the piney woods of north Florida with her Yankee husband where she is compelled to write about far away places and people whose hearts require a voice. Her two daughters live their lives hiding from their mother, whose rampant imagination keeps their lives in constant turmoil with stories of apple-rotten characters and plots that cause the devil to smile.
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  Ivy Young is doing everything she can to keep it together.
  Forced into an arranged marriage by her cruel parents she knows she has to escape.
   
  Escaping the church is easy, but figuring out where to go from there is impossible. And then she
  runs into him, a ruggedly handsome man with eyes that pierce her soul. Instantly, she’s drawn to
  him.
   
  Bishop Williams is a bad boy with tattoos and a history of being a player. He doesn’t believe in
  love—until he helps a runaway bride escape her parents and soon-to-be groom.
   
  One look, and he knows he can’t just leave her there. One taste, and he’s head over heels.
   
  Neither of them have ever been in love. Not until now, but happily ever afters are hard earned,
  and with Ivy’s parents searching for her, theirs may not get a chance to bloom.
   
  Will this runaway bride finally find true love?
   
  
  Chapter One
  Ivy
   
  I stare at my reflection in the full-length mirror. It’s my wedding day...a day most women wait
  their entire lives for. For me, however, 