Stranded with Mr. Wrong: One Snowstorm, One Cabin, and One Unexpected Kiss

A Snowstorm, A Cabin, and One Very Smug Mechanic

Maya Langley doesn’t do spontaneous. As a driven marketing exec, she has her entire life planned down to the minute—which does not include getting stranded in a blizzard on the way to her best friend’s engagement party.

And it definitely doesn’t include being rescued by Noah Carter, the small-town mechanic who has been irritating her since childhood.

Noah has always found Maya’s control-freak tendencies hilarious. But watching her huff and sulk in his truck after he saves her from freezing? That’s pure entertainment. With the roads buried under snow, he has no choice but to take her to his grandfather’s old cabin—where there’s no Wi-Fi, no escape, and just one blanket between them.

Maya is horrified. Noah is delighted.

But as the storm rages on, their verbal sparring turns into actual conversations. Maya starts to see the depth behind Noah’s laid-back attitude, and Noah realizes there’s more to Maya than her to-do lists. Then, in a moment of reckless Truth or Dare, she challenges him to prove there’s no chemistry between them.

The kiss that follows? Very much not part of the plan.

By morning, the snowplows have cleared the roads. The storm is over. So is whatever that was.

Maya heads back to her carefully structured life. But no matter how hard she tries, she can’t stop thinking about him—or the way he fixed her broken necklace without a word. When they cross paths again at the engagement party, she has a choice to go back to her predictable life, or take a chance on the one guy who has never fit into her plans.

Because sometimes, love isn’t scheduled. Sometimes, it just happens.

And sometimes, getting stranded with the wrong person turns out to be the best thing that ever happened to you.