Ashes of Desire
He knows how to fight fire. He does not know how to survive wanting someone again.
Adam Hayes has built his life around control. As a firefighter in the Arizona high desert, he trusts procedure, discipline, and the hard work of saving whoever can still be reached. At home, alone in the cabin he once shared with Sarah, control is all he has left. Years after his wife's death, grief has become his routine.
Tessa has survived by never staying anywhere long enough to be claimed. Her old Jeep, Blue, carries everything she owns and every excuse she needs to keep moving. Roads are simpler than promises. Leaving is easier than being left.
Then a wildfire tears through Juniper Draw.
Caught in smoke, heat, and panic, Tessa is pulled from the burn line by Adam, a man as damaged and stubborn as the land around them. Their first bond is survival. Their second is harder to name. In the days that follow, ash gives way to shelter, silence, argument, memory, and a desire neither of them can explain away.
But Adam's guilt over Sarah still has teeth, and Tessa's instinct to run has saved her more than once. If they want something beyond the wreckage, they will have to face the parts of themselves that know how to burn but not how to heal.
Ashes of Desire is an emotionally intense contemporary survival romance for readers who want wounded characters, high-stakes intimacy, wildfire danger, forced proximity, second chances after loss, and a love story that has to earn its way through the smoke.
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