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Some men are storms. Others are the stillness that follows. At 25, Ariella James is a Chicago-born private home health aide with a temper she keeps tucked beneath layers of denim and sarcasm. She's barely surviving-working double shifts, taking nursing classes at night, and avoiding the ghost of her mother's overdose. When she lands a short-term house-sitting gig in the Hudson Valley, she doesn't expect her quiet escape to come with a brooding neighbor, a Harley Davidson, and a gaze that sees through her armor Cole Maddox-gruff, inked, and 48-retired early from firefighting after losing everything in a blaze he couldn't beat: his wife, his home, and the pieces of himself that made sense. He's spent the last three years off-grid, off-limits, and off the market. Until her. She's too young, too wild, too dangerous for the quiet life he's carved from grief. But when lightning strikes-when Arielle comes barefoot across his porch during a thunderstorm with whiskey in her eyes and nothing but a thin tank top on-his rules begin to bend. Their chemistry is magnetic, their baggage heavy, and neither of them is looking for love. But sometimes, what grows after the ashes... is fireproof.
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