Copper Ridge Firefighter Series

I don’t do distractions.
I investigate fires.

As Copper Ridge’s arson investigator, I live by evidence, not emotions. Especially when it comes to Lieutenant Aiden Gentry—charming, infuriating, and way too comfortable being the department’s golden boy.

We clash over everything. Protocol. Credit. Control.

Then a viral video turns our rivalry into a headline romance we never agreed to.

The solution? Fake it.

Smile for the town. Play nice for the department.

It should be easy. It isn’t.

Because the longer we pretend, the harder it becomes to ignore the heat between us—or the way Aiden has my back when a dangerous string of fires threatens Copper Ridge. As the investigation heats up, so do the stakes… and the line between professional and personal starts to burn.

I’m trained to spot a flashpoint—the moment everything explodes.

I just didn’t expect to be standing in the middle of one.

 Six weeks. One house. Zero chance this stays professional.

Captain Beckett Delano moved to Copper Ridge for peace, quiet, and fewer emotional disasters. As a newly divorced, grumpy fire captain with a six-year-old daughter who asks deeply inappropriate questions at full volume, his life is already chaotic enough.

Then Gemma Lockhart floods it—literally.

When Gemma’s apartment explodes in a plumbing catastrophe, the only place she can afford is the in-law suite at Beck’s new house. Six weeks. Shared walls. One relentlessly cheerful paramedic who talks to everyone. One stoic captain who communicates mostly in grunts. And one dinosaur-obsessed little girl who decides Gemma is her new best friend—and potential future mom.

Gemma doesn’t do serious. Beck doesn’t do feelings. Unfortunately, forced proximity, late-night coffee, and accidental domesticity have other plans.

As sparks fly and old wounds surface, they’ll have to decide if love is worth the risk… or if this slow burn is about to turn into a five-alarm heart emergency.

Opposites attract—especially under one roof.

Forced proximity has never been this dangerous—or this tempting.

This wasn’t the kind of heat either of them trained for.

A grumpy captain. A sunshine paramedic. One very opinionated six-year-old.

In Copper Ridge, even the grumpiest hearts catch fire.

One firehouse. One buried secret. And a second chance that refuses to stay quiet.

Hanna Nakamura comes back to Copper Ridge for family—not for the firefighter she never quite forgot.

Ten years ago, Hanna had a reckless, secret fling with Ty Brennan… her brother’s best friend. It burned hot, ended badly, and was never supposed to be spoken of again. Then she ran.

Now she’s the new EMT at Station 7.
Same shifts. Same calls. Same man who still looks at her like she never left.

Ty has spent a decade pretending he’s over Hanna. He’s lying—to himself most of all. But this time, he won’t be her secret. He wants real. Public. All in.

Hanna wants him too—but risking her relationship with her fiercely protective brother, her reputation, and her carefully rebuilt life might cost her everything.

Between dangerous calls, stolen moments, and a truth ready to explode, Hanna must decide if she’s brave enough to stop running… and finally choose the man she never stopped loving.

Second Alarm is a spicy, laugh-out-loud romantic comedy featuring brother’s best friend tension, second-chance love, secret history, and a firehouse romance that burns hotter the second time around.

He fights fire to outrun his ghosts. She moves every three months to outrun hers. Neither planned on a stray dog ruining everything.

Grady Sullivan fights wildfires the way other people drink coffee — constantly, compulsively, and because the alternative is sitting still long enough to feel something. When his hotshot crew stages at a small-town firehouse in Copper Ridge, Montana, he’s expecting dry brush and long days. Not the quietly devastating vet who treats his crew’s rescue dog and looks at him like she can see exactly what he’s running from.

Sloane Hartley doesn’t stay. That’s the rule. Three months here, four months there, always filling someone else’s practice, never building her own. She buried a brother who chased adrenaline for a living. She knows how this story ends.

But the dog needs vet visits. The fire season keeps throwing them together. And Grady keeps showing up — not with charm (she’s immune), not with moves (the dog likes her better), but with the kind of stubborn honesty that makes her walls feel less like protection and more like a cage.

Two people who’ve built their lives around leaving have to decide if anything is worth staying for. Including each other.

Flashover is a scorching, laugh-out-loud firefighter romcom with a he-falls-first hero who can’t charm his way past a woman who’s seen it all, a stray dog with opinions, and a small town that won’t let anyone leave clean. Book 3 in the Copper Ridge Firefighters series. Each book features a new couple and can be read as a standalone. HEA guaranteed.

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Heart: Fir Balsam, Black Tea

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Essential Oil: Lemon Oil, Cedarwood Oil, Amyris Oil

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