Poppies, Proposals & Pandemonium: A Romantic Comedy

By Dalton Douglas

Jack Elliot runs a nursery with labeled rows, clean edges, and a strict no-chaos policy.

Then Owen McKinney's goat breaks in and eats Jack's poppies like it's committing a personal vendetta. 

Jack would like everyone to know he does not "do" neighbors, spring festivals, or towns that treat boundaries like a group project.

Dalton would like Jack to know that Dalton does not care.

Because once Maggie McGlynn hears the words "goat" and "poppies" in the same sentence, she does what she always does: she opens her iPad, declares it a community project, and assigns a morale component. 

Enter Fred Mitchell-lumberjack, human fence post, and the kind of steady competence that makes Jack's life complicated in the worst possible way. Fred shows up with boards, calm energy, and a quiet certainty that the fence will be built right... whether Jack is emotionally prepared for that or not.  

Between rogue goats, poppy recovery, spring-festival "logistics," and a town that thinks privacy is a myth, Jack is about to learn two things:
1. you can't out-stubborn Dalton, and
2. you definitely can't out-stubborn a man like Fred Mitchell.

Poppies, Proposals & Pandemonium is a cozy, low-angst M/M romantic comedy with small-town chaos, found family meddling, and a slow-burn romance built on quiet competence, unexpected softness, and the kind of care that shows up with a tool belt.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0GHM79ZCM
• ISBN13: 9798244480177
• Release Date: January 2026
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 278 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"