Two decades after escaping his hometown to avoid familial expectations, confirmed bachelor Seamus makes a silly decision that has serious consequences: break his parents’ hearts or agree to an arranged marriage he had run from since childhood.

Local bar owner Seamus Devlin moved across the country at age eighteen, wanting to forge a new life for himself away from familial expectations. After nearly two decades, he’s confident he succeeded in meeting all his goals: he lives in a great small town, has good friends, and most importantly, he’s single and able to keep it that way. Unfortunately, his family doesn’t agree and even from thousands of miles away, they hound him with marital prospects, certain he needs to be married to be happy.

Between his three jobs and his family debts, DJ Johnston can’t get any rest, physically or mentally. With his only living relative on the other side of the country, DJ relies solely on himself. Keeping a positive outlook, he works as hard and as much as he can, knowing from lifelong experience that the only way to get through hard times is to go through them.

When Seamus’s misguided effort to get his family off his back backfires and leads him straight to DJ, he has a choice to make—disappoint his worried family or do the one thing he’d sworn off since childhood and agree to an arranged marriage.

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