The Almost-Bride Survival Guide: A Smart, Sexy Contemporary Romance - Runaway Bride Meets Venture Capitalist Boss in a Slow-Burn, Found-Family Workpla

By Claire Richards

A Runaway Bride, New York Workplace Rom-Com - Slow-Burn, Forbidden Venture Capitalist Romance with Found Family & True HEA

Sierra Blaine did the unthinkable: she walked away from a tuxedo, a church full of cameras, and a life that fit like someone else's dress. What she keeps is a plan-build Neighborly, the scrappy app turning "who needs help?" into "I've got you," and never let her story be written by anyone else again.

Then the boardroom door opens.

Fox Armitage-discipline in a suit, ex-semi-pro surfer, and the investor with the cleanest ethics clause Sierra's ever signed-just happens to be the stranger she kissed at dawn on a borrowed honeymoon beach. He's now her firm's lead on the deal. She's his favorite founder. And the paperwork says they're strictly off-limits.

As Neighborly launches across New York-unlocking service elevators, rerouting deliveries, and proving that logistics is love-Sierra and Fox build rules to keep their hands off each other and their eyes on the work. The internet has other plans: a leaked photo, a rival's sabotage, and a PR storm that would love to turn a woman's boundary into a brand.

He can protect the deal. She can protect the team. Together, they could rewrite the rules-if they're willing to risk the one thing their contracts can't cover: each other.

Expect:
- Runaway-bride reinvention, NYC startup vibes, and found family warmth
- No-fraternization slow burn, knife-edge banter, and real workplace stakes
- A respectful, grown-up hero who shows up; a heroine who owns her voice
- Kisses that wait for consent, heat that builds, and a guaranteed HEA

For readers who love: competence kink, secret-soft investors, stormy stoops and sunrise beaches, community as a character, and heroines who choose themselves first-and still get the love.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0FTFWDST6
• ISBN13: 9798267862042
• Release Date: September 2025
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 182 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.0" x 9.0"