The Slow Blue Hours

She ran from her wedding with the one man she couldn't trust. Now he's the only thing she can't live without.Three weeks ago, Amelia Hart had a cathedral veil in her hair and a fairy-tale life waiting at the end of the aisle. Then she found out the truth: her perfect fiancé is a con man wearing a dead man's name - and the quiet bodyguard he hired to watch her is the man who helped her climb out the window.Now she's hiding on a tiny Greek island with Marco Bennett, a stranger's t-shirt, and a heart she no longer trusts. Because Grant fooled her completely. And if her judgment failed that badly once... how can she believe what she's starting to feel for the man who sleeps in a chair between her and the door?But Marco doesn't push. He never pushes. He just notices - the way she takes her coffee, the flowers her mother loved, the things she never told anyone. One small kindness at a time, in a whitewashed house above a blue harbor, the walls she built start coming down. Swimming lessons in a hidden cove. A storm-trapped night of dancing in a tiny taverna. A love that arrives so quietly she doesn't realize she's falling until she's already fallen.For one golden summer, they're safe. They're happy. They're home.They don't know he's coming.Because four thousand miles away, the man who owned her is crossing the ocean - island by island, patient and immaculate - to take back what he still believes is his. And when the register behind Amelia's heart whispers that something is wrong, she and Marco will have to choose: run forever... or stop being prey.The Slow Blue Hours is Book Two of The Runaway Bride and the Bodyguard series - a slow-burn, swoon-first romantic suspense about learning to trust your own heart again. Perfect for readers who love protective heroes, forced proximity, seaside escapes, and love built one true thing at a time.The romance is safe. The story is not. The final page will leave you breathless for Book Three.