Everyone in Cedar Hollow thinks Cole Bennett is a hero. Wren Halloway knows better. Three years ago, a fire gutted her family's shop and left her father permanently changed, and the man the whole town worships is the one who was standing closest when it happened. She rebuilt her life with her own two hands and swore she would never need saving again, especially not by him.


Then the county sends its structural inspector to sign off on her rebuild, and it's Cole, clipboard in hand, standing in the doorway she's spent three years keeping shut. A shared committee. A shared Main Street. A town too small to let either of them disappear into their own corner. The hostility is instant. So is the heat underneath it, the kind neither of them wants to name.

One reckless night at the site of the fire that started it all, and every wall Wren swore she'd never lower comes down at once. But some truths are more dangerous than attraction, and Cole has been protecting her from one for three years. When it finally surfaces, it costs them both everything they'd just started to build, right as a pregnancy makes walking away impossible.


Now Wren has to decide if trust can be rebuilt as carefully as brick and drywall, and Cole has to prove that love isn't something you earn through silent penance, it's something you choose to be honest about, every single day.

Some fires destroy. This one clears the ground for something worth rebuilding.

Grab your copy of Hating the Firefighter today and fall for the enemies-to-lovers romance readers can't put down.