Runaway Christmas Bride -

On Christmas morning, the sun hits the fresh powder, turning the world into a cathedral of ice. Claire’s "perfect" fiancé arrives with a tow truck and a lecture about the wedding's "cancellation ROI."

Elias doesn't want a runaway bride in his cabin, and Claire doesn't want to be "saved." But as the storm cages them in, the armor starts to melt: Runaway Christmas Bride

They spend Christmas Eve trying to dismantle her corset, which has a literal hundred tiny buttons, leading to a moment of accidental, breathless intimacy. On Christmas morning, the sun hits the fresh

Claire looks at the man who wants her to fit into a box, then at Elias, who is holding her hiking boots. She doesn't get back in the Jeep. Instead, she tells the groom the wedding isn't postponed—it’s over. She doesn't get back in the Jeep

Her flight is cut short by a downed pine tree across a narrow mountain road. Stranded and shivering in twenty pounds of tulle, she’s rescued by Elias—a grumpy, flannel-clad woodworker who moved to the mountains to avoid Christmas specifically because his heart was broken on a December 25th five years ago. The Turning Point