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by V. a. Browning (Author)
Two weeks. One inspector. One stubborn chief. When State Fire Marshal Lily Zhang embeds at Chief Mason Drake's underfunded station, sparks fly on and off the clock as they fight fires, budgets, and a county-wide audit - will the station survive and can two broken people stop running long enough to fall? Buy Burning For Her now to read this high-stakes firefighter romance you'll devour in a single sitting.
Chief Mason Drake has spent seventeen years building Copper Ridge's fire station from the ground up: the crew, the grants, the pride. When state inspector Lily Zhang arrives for a two-week audit, she looks like everything the station isn't-polished, relentless, and dangerously exacting. What Mason expects is a list of violations and a bureaucratic shrug. What he doesn't expect is her knack for reading a burning building like a book.
Lily came to Copper Ridge with a ledger and a promise: do her job, close the chapter on a past that cost her everything, then go home. But the audit becomes an immersion-the intimate, infuriating kind-when a red-flag warning and a fast-moving wildfire turn the inspection into a fight for lives. As Lily's buried firefighting instincts resurface and Mason's stubborn loyalty turns to devotion, they face a harder question than compliance: can two people stitched together by danger build a life beyond the flames?
High stakes, smoky adrenaline, and a love that refuses to let either of them run - can a haunted inspector stay long enough to save the town and herself?
TROPES:
Enemies-to-Lovers Firehouse Romance
Slow-Burn to Instant Attraction Romance
Grumpy x Sunshine (grumpy chief / controlled inspector)
Second-Chance (emotional recovery) Romance
Protector / Protectorate romance (hero protects heroine & town)
