A Second Chance at Fire: A Small Town Second Chance Romance Between a Bakery Owner and the Fire Captain Next Door (Second Chances at Haven Ridge)

By Eliza Hartnell

At ten past five on a Monday morning, Nora Ellison was twenty-three minutes ahead of schedule. That was enough to make her suspicious.

Eleven years in, Ember & Grain is not a little bakery. It is twelve employees, a wholesale order book, commercial property debt, and a woman of forty-one who can look at a rack of dough and tell you whether she is eight minutes ahead or twelve behind. Then, underneath the coffee and the yeast and the toasted edge of flour, she catches something else. Faint. Sharp. Wrong.

Gabe Navarro is a fire captain at Station 4 and the man who owns 214 Founders Row, the building that shares an old party wall with her bakery. The address dispatch reads out that morning is his own.

What burns is only the start of it. Two adjoining buildings, a historic block under redevelopment pressure, a widowed father and a divorced business owner who have both already built one life and are not naive about the cost of starting another.

A Second Chance at Fire is Book One in Second Chances at Haven Ridge, a series about women in their forties getting a second act they actually chose.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0HG96VN8R
• ISBN13: 9798194504916
• Release Date: August 2026
• Publisher: Independently published
• Length: 514 Pages
• Weight: 1.36 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.0" x 1.2" x 6.0"