Garrett Bravo's Runaway Bride

Garrett Bravo's Runaway Bride by Christine Rimmer

Once again, she's running...

When bride-to-be Cami Lockwood finally escapes the clutches of her domineering family, she accidentally stumbles straight into the mountain retreat of the most alluring man she's ever met. Garrett Bravo's never been lucky in love. But that's before a one-of-a-kind heiress rushes headlong onto his doorstep.

But this time, she's running toward something!

Garrett's mother can't resist matchmaking for her relentlessly unavailable son. So what better way to evade her meddling than to pretend that his accidental arrangement with creative, unique Cami is the real thing? Just one catch: he hadn't bargained on falling head over heels for the runaway bride turned woman of his dreams...**

Thanks to Harlequin and NetGalley for the book in exchange for an honest review.

Garrett Bravo was at his cabin to escape from his meddling mother, never did he think he'd have a woman in a wedding dress show up out of the blue. She was a mess and looked like she'd had some sort of an accident. Turns out she had and she was fine but she was done with her old life and was ready to start doing things that made her happy and not worry about anyone else. Garrett is going to help her, he lets her stay with him at the cabin until he goes back home. She's been through all kinds of things, he's attracted to her but won't push anything. 

Cami is finally free of her family and her fiancé.  She stumbles upon Garrett in the woods and finds a peace with him. She likes being with him and hopes he wants more than they've had. She has to deal with her family first. She has to stand up and be an independent person, Garrett helps her with that. BUT Garrett doesn't want anything more than a friend with benefits relationship.  Cami isn't settling for anything now, when she knows she deserves it all!

I really enjoyed seeing a woman take charge after realizing that her life wasn't going anywhere that she wanted but where others wanted it to go. She was going to do what she wanted to and if people didn't like it who cares!  Garrett was so great with her until he realized it going towards a real relationship instead of something fun. When Cami tells Garrett what she wants and what she deserves he lets her go, because he's not wanting the same things. Will he realize what he lost and go after her or will she find someone else to spend her new life with?

**Goodreads summary