The Runaway Bride of Blitzen Bay. A small town Christmas romance - Millie Banks

A runaway bride. A reluctant getaway driver. A Christmas escape that changes everything.

Noelle has spent her entire life being who everyone else needs her to be.

Perfect daughter. Perfect fiancée. Perfect bride.

So when her mother plans the idyllic Christmas wedding, Noelle smiles and nods... and tries to ignore the quiet voice in her heart telling her something's wrong.

Then thirty minutes before she's due to walk down the aisle, Noelle realizes she doesn't love the man who's waiting for her at the altar.

Running would humiliate her mother. Devastate her fiancé.

But staying might mean losing herself completely.

Nash retired from the military hoping for a little peace and a fresh start. Instead, he finds himself restless and unsure where he belongs. The last place he wants to be is at a wedding for a former high school teammate.

And yet, something keeps nagging at him until he finds himself sitting in the church parking lot just minutes before the ceremony begins.

Then he sees her.

White dress.

Shaky hands.

Eyes full of panic.

Not exactly the glowing bride everyone inside is expecting.

And she has a question.

"Will you get me out of here?"

And just like that, Nash becomes an accomplice in a runaway bride's desperate escape plan.

Their destination? Blitzen Bay, the small mountain town that has become Nash's refuge.

As Noelle's jilted fiancé searches for her, she rediscovers the woman she used to be in the cozy hideaway-full of twinkling lights, warm kitchens, and neighbors who treat gossip like a competitive sport.

And Nash begins to wonder if the strange pull that brought him to that wedding might not have been so random after all.

Because sometimes the wrong wedding... could lead you to the right bride.