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Last Call for Runaways
Amelia Ricalde was supposed to say "I do."
Instead, she jumped out a window, landed in a dumpster, and crash-landed into The Backroom Saints - a half-functional dive bar run by Rue Lim, a bartender who makes bad drinks and even worse decisions.
Now stranded in Manila with nothing but a ripped wedding dress and a panic attack, Amelia ends up sleeping on Rue's busted sofa. Rue figures she'll be gone by morning.
She isn't.
Between spilled cocktails, neon lights, and arguments about cocktail shakers, the runaway bride and the emotionally unavailable bartender start accidentally rebuilding each other's lives - one disaster at a time.
But when Amelia's past comes knocking, she'll have to choose: the perfect life she escaped, or the beautiful, chaotic one she's built behind the bar.
A story about heartbreak, healing, and second chances in the glow of a dying neon sign -
Last Call for Runaways is a WLW slow burn about falling apart, falling in love, and learning that the best beginnings often start with a bad decision.