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Runaway Valentine: A Runaway Bride & Her Best Friend's Brother's Second Chance At Romance
Paperback
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Feb 14 2026
Pages: 294
Weight: 0.65
Height: 0.66 Width: 5.00 Depth: 8.00
Language: English
Ivy Harris leaves her wedding before the vows.
One very long car ride in a ruined wedding dress later, she ends up in Cupid Corner, the mountain town she left the second she graduated high school. The goal is simple: hide out, get her head straight, and figure out how she ended up engaged to the wrong man. So she returns to the place she always felt safe: the mechanic shop her best friend's dad owned. A garage she used to play in with her friend and her friend's little brother, Lynx.
But Lynx McMurty is no longer anyone's kid brother.
He's now the tattooed mechanic who owns his father's garage, fills a T-shirt unfairly well, and still knows every word to their high school musicals-even if he only sings in private. He's also been in love with Ivy for far too long.
Letting her stay in his spare room is a mistake he knows better than to make. It's supposed to be temporary. Manageable.
It isn't.
The longer Ivy stays, the harder it is to ignore how good she looks in his space, in his clothes, and dangerously close to his bed. And when Ivy stumbles across a secret Lynx never meant her to find, pretending this is temporary stops being an option.
Ivy already left Cupid Corner and Lynx behind once.
But this time, walking away from the small mountain town won't be so easy.
A cozy, spicy small-town romantic comedy featuring a runaway bride, a pining mechanic, meddling townsfolk, and a grand gesture fit for Broadway. Happily ever after guaranteed.
TROPES & VIBES
- Runaway bride
- Best friend's younger brother
- He fell first (and harder)
- Childhood pining / secret crush
- Forced proximity
- Small-town romance with meddling side characters
- Grumpy mechanic x sunshine heroine
- Tattooed blue-collar hero
- Elderly cat sidekick
- Karaoke & musical theater moments
- High spice, emotional depth
- HEA guaranteed
Perfect for fans of Things We Never Got Over by Lucy Score, It Happened One Summer by Tessa Bailey, and The Cheat Sheet by Sarah Adams.
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