Fighting the Flames — Em Petrova

Where there's smoke, Maddox jumps into the flames.

Maddox has been battling California's wildfires for years. As a smokejumper, he's trained to take action first and think second, but when he sees the cabin his best buddy owned before his death surrounded by a wall of fire, he can only think of his friend's widow.

Sydney came to the cabin to ready it to sell. The place holds too many memories for her peace of mind, and after three years of grieving, she's ready to take a deep breath and move on. But she can't do that smothered in her cabin.
When the smoke clears…

Maddox needs to evacuate the curvy vixen he has thought about too much since his friend's passing, but the stubborn woman won't leave. The team is short-handed, and she's determined to get hands-on training. Cutting, shoveling, digging -- all those things should wear out a woman of her size, but she still has amazing stamina in his bed -- as well as bent over logs and pinned against trees.

The smokejumpers aren't dropped into the danger zone with any water to fight the blaze, which is good because Sydney doesn't want to douse what she has with Maddox. The sexy firefighter is everything she could want in a lover, and his link to her past makes her feel what they have is real. Until they're back at base and no longer feeling the heat.

Maddox may never see her as more than his friend's widow, but Sydney believes this is more than a danger-zone fling.