Laylah McPherson never planned to be a runaway bride.

She definitely never planned to crash into a moose on a stormy night and end up stranded in a lakeside town she’s never heard of. But when her car needs months of repairs, she begs the town’s infuriating (infuriatingly attractive) bar owner for a job while she hides from the life she left at the altar.

Lucas Hanson has no interest in being anyone’s hero.

A betrayal cost him his career, and he’s rebuilt a quieter life in Cedar Falls – one with no drama, and definitely no room for a bubbly socialite who has too many ideas, wears too much pink, and somehow convinces him to adopt a stray bar cat.

Unfortunately, she’s impossible to say no to.

Just as Laylah starts to build a life that’s finally her own, the controlling past she escaped catches up to her. She’ll have to choose: the life that was chosen for her … or risk everything for the one she’s chosen for herself.

A slow-burn, small town romance with a grumpy bar owner, a runaway bride, and one bed neither of them asked for.