Forever Hold Your Peace


 Contents
 
 Praise
 Title Page
 Dedication
 Chapter 1
 Chapter 2
 Chapter 3
 Chapter 4
 Chapter 5
 Chapter 6
 Chapter 7
 Chapter 8
 Chapter 9
 Chapter 10
 Chapter 11
 Chapter 12
 Chapter 13
 Chapter 14
 Chapter 15
 Chapter 16
 Chapter 17
 Chapter 18
 Chapter 19
 Chapter 20
 Chapter 21
 Chapter 22
 Chapter 23
 Chapter 24
 Chapter 25
 Chapter 26
 Chapter 27
 Acknowledgments
 Questions
 Also by Liz Fenton & Lisa Steinke
 Author Biography
 Copyright
 
 
 
 Guide
 
 Cover
 Start of Content
 Title Page
 Dedication
 Chapter 1
 Acknowledgments
 Copyright
 
 
 
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 Praise for Forever Hold Your Peace:
 “With plentiful laughs on one side of the aisle and long-standing, multigenerational drama on the other—this is one wedding you won’t want to miss. RSVP YES.”
 —Steven Rowley, bestselling author of The Guncle and The Celebrants
 “Full of surprises and bursting with love, Forever Hold Your Peace is a wildly fun mashup of romance and family drama with one resounding message: love conquers all.”
 —Taylor Hahn, author of The Lifestyle
 “An unexpected delight, a love story two generations in the making with characters that you cheer for from the first page. [This is] the book that will restore your faith in the staying power of true love.”
 —Annabel Monaghan, author of Nora Goes Off Script
 “Liz & Lisa are at the top of their game with Forever Hold Your Peace—A LOT of heart with just the right amount of snark! You’re gonna love it!”
 —Julie Slavinsky, Warwick’s
 “Brimming with sparkling wit and a lively cast of characters, Forever Hold Your Peace is at its heart a romance about a second-chance friendship and a once-in-a-lifetime love twenty-five years in the making.”
 —Ashley Poston, New York Times bestselling author of The Dead Romantics
 “You’ll want to shout I DO! to this layered and hilarious walk down the aisle.”
 —Allison Winn Scotch, New York Times bestselling author of The Rewind
 “Forever Hold Your Peace is exactly what you want in a novel: a great love story, family drama and lots of humour and insight. It made me laugh, tear up and smile at the end. Add this to your TBR immediately!”
 —Catherine McKenzie, USA Today bestselling author of Forgotten and Hidden
 
 
 
 FOREVER HOLD YOUR PEACE
 A Novel
 LIZ FENTON AND LISA STEINKE
 
 
 
 To our fellow authors: we’re all in this together.
 
 
 
 CHAPTER ONE
 
 It was official, Olivia decided. The Amalfi Coast was the most romantic place in the world. Every Instagram story she’d watched before arriving hadn’t been exaggerated. She now understood that the experience of being immersed in the beauty of the towns speckling the coastline of Southern Italy made you desperate to share. To try to convey that the tomatoes in the quiet fishing village of Praiano were more vibrant than anywhere else, their plump juices sweeter. That the red wine in the mountaintop town of Ravello was smoother. The locals in the coast’s namesake town of Amalfi did smile wider. And here, in the picture-perfect cliffside city of Positano, love felt deeper. So deep that it became a part of your soul.
 She never wanted to leave.
 Olivia couldn’t see Zach’s hazel eyes behind his dark aviator sunglasses, but she was sure they were slightly narrowed as he focused on navigating the boat through the crowded Positano harbor. She hadn’t known him long, but she’d already memorized so many of his expressions. The way his eyebrows dipped when he concentrated, how he chewed the inside of his cheek when he told her about his childhood, the teasing smile that played on his full lips when he was about to kiss her.
 But he still surprised her with a new detail about himself every day. Like when they’d boarded the sleek sky-blue motorboat earlier and Zach announced with pride that he would be her captain for the day. The words had tumbled out quickly as he’d explained they were riding in a nineteen-foot pleasure craft, a Cayman