The Runaway Groom Next Door
(2026)(A book in the Wedding Season in Ivy Hollow series)
A novel by Lily Love
He left his bride at the altar. She thinks he's the worst kind of man. They're about to become neighbors.
Wesley Park did the hardest thing he's ever done three weeks ago: he said "I can't" instead of "I do." The fallout was nuclear. His family isn't speaking to him, social media had opinions, and his ex-fiancée's father threatened to sue. So Wesley did the only logical thing and fled to a rental cottage in a town where nobody knows his name.
The cottage next door belongs to Dahlia Reeves, who knows exactly who Wesley is because his face was on a viral TikTok titled "World's Worst Groom." Dahlia has zero sympathy. Her café runs on early mornings and hard work, her brother just got engaged, and she doesn't have time to babysit a man who can't commit. She tells him this. To his face. Day one.
Wesley probably deserves that. But he also didn't leave his fiancée for the reasons the internet thinks. And the sharp-tongued café owner next door is the first person in weeks who treats him like a human being instead of a headline, even if her version of kindness involves aggressive casserole deliveries and unsolicited honesty.
Dahlia doesn't trust men who bolt. Wesley doesn't trust himself to stay. But in a town that believes in second chances and a Halloween where masks come off, the runaway groom and the woman who sees right through him might just find what they've both been afraid to look for.
A sweet, closed-door romance featuring a man the internet loves to hate, a woman who hates him plenty on her own, and a small town that's surprisingly good at keeping secrets.
Genre: Romance
Wesley Park did the hardest thing he's ever done three weeks ago: he said "I can't" instead of "I do." The fallout was nuclear. His family isn't speaking to him, social media had opinions, and his ex-fiancée's father threatened to sue. So Wesley did the only logical thing and fled to a rental cottage in a town where nobody knows his name.
The cottage next door belongs to Dahlia Reeves, who knows exactly who Wesley is because his face was on a viral TikTok titled "World's Worst Groom." Dahlia has zero sympathy. Her café runs on early mornings and hard work, her brother just got engaged, and she doesn't have time to babysit a man who can't commit. She tells him this. To his face. Day one.
Wesley probably deserves that. But he also didn't leave his fiancée for the reasons the internet thinks. And the sharp-tongued café owner next door is the first person in weeks who treats him like a human being instead of a headline, even if her version of kindness involves aggressive casserole deliveries and unsolicited honesty.
Dahlia doesn't trust men who bolt. Wesley doesn't trust himself to stay. But in a town that believes in second chances and a Halloween where masks come off, the runaway groom and the woman who sees right through him might just find what they've both been afraid to look for.
A sweet, closed-door romance featuring a man the internet loves to hate, a woman who hates him plenty on her own, and a small town that's surprisingly good at keeping secrets.
Genre: Romance
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