Hiking, Honey & Heart Eyes: A Romantic Comedy

By Dalton Douglas

Dalton's newest tourist obsession is Honey Weekend-a cheery swirl of tastings, craft booths, and one "crowd-friendly signature hike" to a wildflower ridge that's supposed to prove the town can do outdoor adventure without anyone needing to be airlifted out.

Enter Silas Grant, state park ranger and professional fun-ruiner (according to everyone who has ever tried to ignore a safety rule). Silas is calm, competent, and built for crisis response-because in his world, rules keep people alive.

Enter Theo Hartman, Dalton's wide-eyed new beekeeper with a honey booth, big dreams, brand-new boots, and the kind of optimism that makes Silas's eye twitch.

Theo thinks Silas is judging him. Silas thinks Theo is reckless. Both are wrong-and increasingly distracted.

Because once weather, bees, and Dalton enthusiasm collide, the festival becomes a chain of minor catastrophes: a bee suit demo fiasco, tourists with "vibes" who wander off-trail, and a rainstorm that traps Silas and Theo under a tarp with too much warmth and nowhere to put it. The more rescues they run together, the harder it gets to pretend they're just coworkers.

Then a public complaint makes it look like Silas tried to shut Theo down.

Theo spirals. Silas realizes the only way to fix this-really fix it-is to be emotionally brave... out loud.

With Maggie's meddling coven on standby, goats in flower crowns causing chaos, and the entire town rooting for the world's most obvious park-ranger-and-beekeeper situation, Silas and Theo have one last chance to save the signature hike-and choose a relationship that includes both safety and wonder.

Hiking, Honey & Heart Eyes is a warm, laugh-out-loud M/M romantic comedy packed with small-town shenanigans, competence chemistry, grumpy/sunshine energy, forced proximity, and a happily-ever-after that tastes like wildflower honey.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0GL1MDNKQ
• ISBN13: 9798246503072
• Release Date: February 2026
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 342 Pages
• Weight: 0.91 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"