Such a sweet story! Loved it from beginning to end. Do yourself a favor and pick this book up today! You will love it as much as I did.

I really liked Laurel and Doug. Really cute romance!

Many thanks to NetGalley, the author, and the publisher for ARC. All opinions are my own.

This is a stand a lone book
Easy fast read
Likable characters who fall for each other

Thanks NetGalley & The Wild Rose Press Inc for the ARC.

Runaway love story- sadira stone

This book was an easy read. It flowed beautifully and had me invested in multiple characters and their lives.

With a perfect balance of love, family, future and lust this book ticked every box of a romance.

There are literally no big faults with this book, I would have liked a bigger HEA but I will settle for a little HEA like the one I got.

I would very much enjoy a following book to go into more of Doug and Laurels life. That is how much I enjoyed the characters.

This was a pleasant surprise and much better than I expected. I started off thinking this story was going to be more on the wholesome side. Thankfully, it wasn't, though a bit embarrassing when it comes to "size." Glad to have reviewed this from NetGalley.

Laurel goes to Eugene, Oregon to help her Great Aunt Maxie pack up her house for a move to retirement home. Aunt Maxie is a ninety yr old artist who has helped Laurel through college and trying to find her artistic side she so wants. Laurel has lots of baggage regarding family and life in general. On her first day in Eugene, she meets Doug, a tall, beanpole, bald male, who is a runner, teacher and coach. She gets back to Maxie's after a run, and Maxie doesn't know who she is. Doug takes over and calms Maxie til she remembers. His Mother has dementia too.
This a well-written story of life: values, realities, wants and desires. Laurel has a certain place in life she desires. Since she doesn't think she's artistic, she wants life as a gallery manager in a large city limelight. Doug likes himself, teaching, helping kids in Eugene where is family resides.
Doug and Maxie help Laurel get a job in a bookstore. Then try to show her how reality can change. This book is her journey. It is well worth the read. I enjoyed the journey. The author made me so mad at times. I recommend this book. I will read more books by Sadira Stone.

Great read.

The story of Doug and Laurel. They meet out running, and this is then something they do together throughout the rest of the book.

Laurel is in town short term to help out her Great Aunt. They quickly end up falling for each other, but he knows she is meant to be leaving. Will she give him a chance?

This was the second book in the series but I don't think it matters if you haven't read the first - I hadn't.

This book was actually quite short, but it felt like it kept dragging on with all the back and forth between Laurel and Doug. To me, Laurel wasn't a very likeable character. I know she had history and a reason to be so skiddish, but the hot and cold with her relationship with Doug drove me crazy. Maxie was my favorite part of this book and I loved all the parts of the book that she was in.

Laurel, Runaway Love Story’s heroine, is a free-spirit who wants to be an artist. Her plans are derailed time and again by her own lack of commitment and tendency to run away when things don’t go her way. Her plans are again derailed, this time by outside forces: her aunt, Maxie, is 90 years old and suffering from memory loss. Maxie has mentored Laurel and paid her college tuition, so Laurel “owes” her. So Laurel returns to Eugene, OR to help Maxie move into an assisted living facility. Laurel envisions her situation with Maxie to be a temporary stopover as she plans to move to San Francisco and run an art gallery.

While running, she meets Doug, a good guy/teacher whose mother is in the same assisted living. Not your average romance hero, Doug is tall, lanky—and bald. Laurel is six feet tall, so he’s a good bit taller. He has deep roots in Eugene and doesn’t plan on leaving. These two have hot chemistry but must work out if that is enough for them to weave a life together.

Stone’s use of every day situations like putting a loved one in a nursing home brings a deep humanity to this novel that is usually lacking in romance, especially one this hot! It certainly elevates the book above the usual romance. Laurel and Doug face a rough road with lots of potholes and emotional baggage as they try to find a compromise that will let their relationship blossom. I read it in one sitting.

When an author’s debut book is a 5 star read, you are always a little nervous about their sophomore attempt holding up and living up to expectations.
No worries with Sadira Stone’s second book, RUNAWAY LOVE STORY. It’s as fabulous as her first novel, THROUGH THE RED DOOR.

Runaway Love Story deals with free spirit and wannabe artist Laurel, and down home good guy and teacher, Doug (whom we first met in TTRD). When Laurel comes to Eugene to help her great aunt move to an assisted care facility, she meets Doug during a run one morning and one of them falls hard and fast for the other.
The problem? Laurel’s situation is temporary. Eugene is just a stopover on her way to bigger and better things in San Francisco. Doug loves his home town and doesn’t plan on leaving it. Ever.

Told in her typical smexy and descriptive style, Stone weaves a story of two people with burning-up-the-sheets chemistry who need to figure out if they can compromise what they each want in order to find their HEA. Their road is rocky, emotional, and ultimately thought provoking, because each of them brings a lifetime of emotional baggage along for the ride. How they learn to deal with that – and if they learn to deal with it – is the crux of Stone’s story.
And it’s a goodie!