“Listen to me, I never wanted to go with you, got it? Never. The only reason I said all that crap is because I was trying to get laid.” I can see the last glimmers of hope dying out in her eyes like the fading streaks of rosy sunlight across the sunset. I want to shut my mouth. I want to tell her I’m lying. That I love her with my entire body, mind, and soul. But if I do that, if I tell her the truth, she may never get out of here. She deserves more than that. She deserves more than me. I’m the bad guy. The one who destroyed Karen Baker’s heart and sent her packing. I’ve had to live with that decision everyday for the past four years. I had to sacrifice my happiness for hers. I gave up our future together for a chance to live her dream. Somehow life kept going. Years passed in a blur. I never expected to be voted in as the deputy fire chief of our department tonight and I definitely didn’t expect to see Karen walk in here. She looks like an angel. She’s so perfect, I wonder if I’m hallucinating. But it’s not a dream. It’s real. She’s really back and she really hates me. I don’t have much time to try to explain how wrong I was, to get her back, to make her mine. Because when she leaves this time, it'll be forever. \\Forged by Fire is the first book in a small town, firefighter series. It can be read as a standalone. This novel has no cheating and a guaranteed HEA.\\

“Help me. It's my heart.” I called 9-1-1 because the panic crippled me. I thought I was dying. He showed up to rescue me, but now he wants more. Can I ever love again with a broken heart? When stuff happens fast, we say it's in a heartbeat. In a heartbeat everything changes. In a heartbeat our world falls apart. People die in a heartbeat, that much I know. But what about love? The very reason our heart beats in the first place. I thought my heart was killing me and that brought Byron to my door. The brave firefighter I knew once upon a lifetime ago. Like every hero, he wears scars. Mine are worn across my heart. The same one that pounds in my chest whenever I look in his eyes. Everything that happens fast is in a heartbeat, right? That's how long it took to think I'd die. That's how long it took for him to walk back into my life. The question Is a heartbeat long enough to fall in love? From the Ashes is the second instalment in the Forged by Fire series. This standalone firefighter romance takes place in the fictional small town Pine Grove. If you like sizzling romance filled with realistic drama, laugh-out-loud moments and ugly cries then you need this book. Grab From the Ashes now and see how a bestselling author/volunteer firefighter writes firefighter romance!