Tulle & Timber

She ran from the altar. He ran from everyone. Then a mountain storm trapped them together.

Forty-five minutes before her society wedding, Daphne Clarke makes the most reckless decision of her life: she runs.

Still wearing a fifteen-thousand-dollar couture wedding gown, Daphne escapes into the Cascade Mountains and takes refuge in what she believes is an abandoned cabin.

It isn't.

Elias Thorne is a rugged, reclusive bestselling thriller author who moved into the wilderness for one reason silence. Instead, he gets a runaway bride, muddy boots, a ruined cast-iron skillet, and a woman who seems determined to challenge every rule he's made for his solitary life.

Then the ash storm arrives.

A massive wildfire inversion blankets the valley, the roads become impassable, and the power goes out. Suddenly, Daphne and Elias are trapped together with nowhere to go and no way to escape the attraction building between them.

She's sunshine in a wedding dress. He's grumpy in a mountain cabin.

Forced into close quarters, Daphne begins discovering the woman she's spent years suppressing. Elias discovers that beneath her polished society-girl image is a fiercely observant artist who sees straight through his walls and somehow helps him find his way back to the story he's been unable to finish.

But six days of isolation can't last forever.

When the storm clears, Daphne's old life comes looking for her. Her powerful fiancé wants her back, Elias believes letting her go is the only way to protect her, and Daphne must decide whether to return to the life everyone else chose for her or finally choose herself.

Sometimes the wrong escape leads you exactly where you're meant to be.

Tulle & Timber is a grumpy-sunshine, runaway bride, forced-proximity contemporary romance featuring opposites-attract chemistry, a rugged mountain cabin, emotional healing, playful banter, and a hard-won happily-ever-after.