A botched kidnapping and a runaway bride…

Security expert Tanner Caldwell has spent most of his life being in the right place at the right time. But nothing could have prepared him for the chaos that erupts on the steps of the church — or for the sight of Jordan Grazer in a wedding dress, her life suddenly in danger.

Tanner has been in love with Jordan for as long as he can remember. She’s always been just out of reach — a debutante from a different world, promised to another man. But when the threat becomes real and every second counts, Tanner doesn’t think twice. He grabs her hand and runs.

Now they’re on the run together, and everything Tanner ever wanted is suddenly within reach.

Renowned horse trainer Jordan has always known exactly what her life was supposed to look like — the right family, the right marriage, the right future carefully arranged to rescue her family from financial ruin. But safe in Tanner’s arms, that carefully arranged life feels very far away.

With him, there are no obligations, no secrets, no looming sacrifices. There are only hand-in-hand walks under open skies, slow and sensuous kisses, and long nights that feel like they belong to someone else’s life — someone freer, someone braver, someone who gets to choose.

Jordan knows it can’t last. The mystery behind the kidnapping attempt will eventually be solved, and when it is, she’ll have to go home. Her family’s future depends on the wedding she ran away from. Saying goodbye to Tanner means saying I do to a man she doesn’t love.

But walking away from the man who has loved her most of his life may be the one thing Jordan simply cannot do.

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