Burn Line
"I'm not saying you belong to me," he whispered. "But God help me, I don't want anyone else to think they have a chance."
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Sloane Riley didn't move across the country for friends, fun, or love, she came to prove she still belongs in the job that took everything from her. Being the new firefighter at Station 223 means starting at the bottom again long nights, endless drills, and earning respect one call at a time.
Luke Hemmings doesn't train rookies-especially ones who think they already know what they're doing. Cold, capable, and dangerously steady under pressure, he's built his life around control. But when Sloane steps onto his crew, every rule he's lived by starts to unravel.
At the Burn Line, control is survival.
And the closer they get, the hotter the flames.
She was his coworker. She was his close friend. She was his cousin. These were all things I knew. There were just a few crucial components to their connection of which I had been unaware. She had been his crush. And now he was hers.