COLDWATER FIRE

A Slow Burn Firefighter Romance

She's here to inspect his station. He's not here to let anyone in.

Nora Castellano arrives on the Oregon coast with a clipboard, two pens, and a job to do. As a state fire inspector, she's seen every kind of station — the good, the neglected, the ones hanging on by a thread.

Coldwater Fire Station 1 is all three. Captain Eli Morrow hasn't let anyone past his defenses in five years. Not since a warehouse floor collapsed and took his rookie with it. He runs his crew with precision, writes every logbook entry by hand, and stands at the kitchen counter because sitting at the table would mean joining something he doesn't trust himself to keep.

Then the storm hits. The road washes out. And the inspector with the sharp eyes and her father's career in her bones has nowhere to go but inside. What starts as professional friction becomes something neither of them planned for — a slow, dangerous pull between a man who has stopped allowing himself to want anything and a woman who has spent her whole life watching from the margins instead of stepping inside. As Nora uncovers deficiencies that could shut the station down, and Eli faces a grief he's buried under five years of procedure, they'll have to decide what they're willing to risk — their careers, their walls, or the fragile thing growing between them in the space between the counter and the table.

Coldwater Fire is a slow-burn firefighter romance with a grumpy-protective hero, a competent heroine who earns every ounce of respect she's given, a found-family crew you'll want six more books about, and one three-legged dog who has no respect for personal boundaries.

Book One of the Coldwater Fire Series. Dual POV. Medium heat. HEA. Content includes: PTSD and grief (sensitively handled), a pediatric near-drowning (the child survives), a wildfire with a Mayday situation (all firefighters survive), and intimate scenes between consenting adults. For readers who love: Corinne Michaels, Laura Pavlov, Claire Kingsley, and Paisley Hope.