The Best Man is a sweet and wholesome romance by Grace Livingston Hill first published in 1908. The story is about the love between Celia Hathaway and Cyril Gordon. Cyril Gordon is a handsome Secret Service Agent who stumbles in upon a wedding ceremony while he is being chased by his pursuers. He is being forced to walk down the the aisle as the best man as he was being mistaken by the people in the church. But to his surprise, he was not the best man, but the groom!