Fake Date with the Runaway Bride

She ran from one wedding—and straight into another.

Sloane Whitaker never planned on ending up in Wild Rose Point, dripping wet in a ruined designer gown.

But after fleeing her own wedding in a speedboat and sputtering out of gas along the rugged Oregon coast, she washes up on the beach outside the sleepy seaside town—right into the path of Ryan Clancy, a wildlife rescue specialist with a guarded heart and a habit of saving strays, human and otherwise.

When a landslide cuts off the coastal road, Sloane has no choice but to accept Ryan’s offer to crash in his spare room. He’s not in the habit of taking in runaway brides, but he’s desperate—his ex’s high-profile wedding is that weekend, and he needs a date to survive it. So he makes her an offer: pretend to be his girlfriend for one weekend, and he’ll give her a place to stay while she figures out her next move.

What starts as a convenient arrangement soon turns into something real under the salt air and late-summer sunset. Between the small-town gossip, Ryan’s quiet protectiveness, and the chemistry neither of them can ignore, Sloane begins to wonder if she didn’t just run from the wrong man… but straight toward the right one.