Runaway Groomsman

Novelist Meghan Quinn, bestselling author of USA Today and Amazon Charts, brings us a poignant romantic comedy about fresh starts and discovering the idealized happily ever after in unexpected places.

Sawyer Walsh is a Hollywood screenwriter who has a keen eye for romantic tales. But he's a disaster when it comes to romance in real life. That's how he ends himself at the altar watching his ex-girlfriend marry his extremely well-known best buddy. It's all too much—the tension, the anger, the media attention—and before he realizes what he's doing, he's running away, leaving a startled crowd and flashing cameras in his wake.

In an attempt to hide from the media, Sawyer travels to the quaint Californian hamlet of Canoodle, where he meets Fallon Long, the proprietor of the family-run Canoodle Cove Cabins, which happens to be Sawyer's new temporary home.

Fallon is striving to restore the cabins to their former splendor, but she is finding it difficult to make ends meet due to the renovations and her extensive to-do list. She is thankful for the money when Sawyer shows up, but she dismisses him right away as simply another shallow Hollywood scammer—until he starts to consistently show her wrong.

Fallon and the dashing screenwriter develop a strong relationship as she gets closer to restoring the family company. But the pressures of her family obligations and Sawyer’s notoriety might prove to be too much for anyone to handle. Is a fresh romance taking place in Canoodle, or is the idea of pure love only a Hollywood farce?