Firefighter

A prominent romance author has a slump in her love life and book sales, but a chance encounter with a hot firefighter helps her ignite her muse in this swoony holiday romance, perfect for book romantics.

USA Today bestselling author Naima Simone heats up the page with intensity and wit in this romance between a pro hockey player and a firefighter, both struggling to move on from the past. Being a firefighter isn’t easy. Especially for a Black woman. Working with family helps a little. But when somebody from your company doesn’t come back from a call, it’s brutal—as in, “How’m I supposed to go on?” brutal. And one death took me to a really dark place. A year later, I’m at the Pirates’ hockey training facility. Just another day on the job. Until I find a charred journal. I look inside for the owner’s name, but the words on the page punch me in the gut. It’s like reading my own thoughts. Reliving my own pain. The journal belongs to Solomon Young, left\-winger for the Pirates—a father and widower. When I return it, I’m racked with guilt for the invasion of privacy. The look Solomon gives me is cold as ice. But damn if that man isn’t hot as hell. Now he’s stuck in my brain. And fate seems intent on making us face off.

He’s a newly single father with a demanding job as a firefighter. She’s a newly unemployed daycare worker in need of new job. Tripp believes it’s fate when his station house is called to a fire at the daycare Brylee works at. It becomes harder to manage being a full time father to a newborn and the hours his job demands so when he sees an opportunity to hire Brylee as an inhouse nanny he doesn’t hesitate. The situation with his daughter’s mom is sticky, he’s trying to fight his feelings for Brylee, but Tripp learns it’s hard to ignore someone who checks all his boxes so perfectly.