Best Man, Wrong Groom: An MM Best Friends to Lovers Romance

Cameron Bellamy has spent his entire life managing other people's expectations. As a successful coffee roaster, a dutiful son, and a reliable fiancé, he excels at playing the part. But on the morning of his lavish Finger Lakes destination wedding, the only thing keeping him from a panic attack is his best man, Wes.

Wesley Nakamura has been functioning at a low-grade fever for a decade. As a county emergency coordinator, he handles disasters for a living, but his greatest survival skill is hiding his eight-year, unrequited love for his straight best friend. Wes arrived at Hemlock Lodge prepared to smile through the worst day of his life.

Then a severe nor'easter hits. The venue is destroyed, the roads flood, and the wedding is cancelled.

Stranded in the lodge with seventy displaced guests, Cam's carefully constructed life finally crumbles. And in the wreckage, with the guardrails gone and a single queen bed waiting, Cam realizes that the safe, platonic comfort he always felt with Wes was actually a deeply buried, consuming desire.

Crossing the line is easy in the dark. But when the storm clears, Cam has to decide if he's finally brave enough to stop performing and step into the daylight—or if he's going to put the only man he's ever loved back in a drawer.

Best Man, Wrong Groom is a high-heat, standalone MM romance by Jace Wilder featuring a delayed bisexual awakening, a hyper-competent emergency manager who finally gets to lose control, explicit praise and restraint dynamics, and a guaranteed happily ever after.