The White House Wedding

By Seelie Kay

Getting married isn’t easy when your father’s the President of the United States! After reluctantly agreeing to a White House wedding, Sarah Lee Pearson, the president’s daughter, finds herself swept into a political maelstrom of unimagined proportions.

The White House staff and the first lady see the wedding as a political event, a way to sweep the president into his next term. Congress is complaining about the collateral costs. The media is delightfully rehashing every aspect of Sarah’s life, even those events that have nothing to do with the impending marriage. And the American public? Visions of an American royal wedding have swept them into a frenzy and vendors take advantage, making a quick buck off of everything from limited edition t-shirts to commemorative teacups.

Sarah and her fiancé, Sam, fight hard to ignore the craziness, but after learning a bounty has been put on their heads by an anti-government militia group, they have to decide whether a White House wedding is indeed worth it. And given all the hurtful controversy, perhaps a better solution is to not get married at all.

• Language: English
• Publisher: eXtasy Books Inc
• Release date: Mar 15, 2020
• ISBN: 9781487427962

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When politics interferes with love, can love survive?

Getting married isn’t easy when your father’s the President of the United States! After reluctantly agreeing to a White House wedding, Sarah Lee Pearson, the president’s daughter, finds herself swept into a political maelstrom of unimagined proportions.

The White House staff and the first lady see the wedding as a political event, a way to sweep the president into his next term. Congress is complaining about the collateral costs. The media is delightfully rehashing every aspect of Sarah’s life, even those events that have nothing to do with the impending marriage. And the American public? Visions of an American royal wedding have swept them into a frenzy and vendors take advantage, making a quick buck off of everything from limited edition t-shirts to commemorative teacups.

Sarah and her fiancé, Sam, fight hard to ignore the craziness, but after learning a bounty has been put on their heads by an anti-government militia group, they have to decide whether a White House wedding is indeed worth it. And given all the hurtful controversy, perhaps a better solution is to not get married at all.

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The White House Wedding

Copyright © 2020 Seelie Kay

ISBN: 978-1-4874-2796-2

Cover art by Angela Waters

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The White House Wedding

By

Seelie Kay

Dedication

In celebration of what matters—Unconditional love.

Chapter One: The Pitch

You want me to do what?

Sarah Lee Pearson glared at her father’s Chief of Staff. "Why on earth would I want to be married at the White House? All I want is a quiet little ceremony in Wisconsin. Just me, Sam, family, and close friends.

A White House wedding would be too much. You’d invite every power broker and foreign dignitary you could think of just to score points. People who haven’t even met Sam and me. People who could care less about us. So, no, that’s not happening.

Jeremiah Wilson smiled, his expression patronizing. You wouldn’t do it for your father? Really? The next presidential election is fast approaching, and your father’s re-election is far from a sure thing. But a White House wedding? Your father walking his long-lost daughter down the aisle? That would bind him to every American with a heart. Your story mesmerized the American public during the first election. Your wedding could have the same impact in the second.

Sarah frowned. She had found her father, President Jamisen Powell, only two years prior. Up until then, she had believed the people who raised her were, in fact, her parents. After they died in a fire when she was sixteen, Sarah had searched for other family members with no success. She had believed she was alone, until a chance meeting with then-candidate Powell revealed a startling resemblance and raised new questions.

Suddenly Sarah’s quiet life as an international law attorney at a medium-sized Milwaukee law firm was thrown into turmoil.

Her best friend, private investigator Lisa Barzak, discovered that Sara’s birth certificate had been altered, but was similar to that of Sally Powell, who had been kidnapped from her bed at age five. Slowly, the pieces began to fall into place. Ultimately, a DNA test revealed that she and Powell were indeed father and daughter. Many believed the story of their emotional reunion had secured his election. Since then, she and her fiancé, Sam Charles, a corporate law attorney at the same firm, had worked hard to stay under the radar, out of the public eye.

How does my father feel about this? Sarah asked.

"Your father wants