Scene 20 · Dark second-chance romance
Backfire
“I read fire for a living, so I am the only one who can see that someone is burning my valley to the ground for money, and that the man I never stopped loving is the mark they mean to pin it on.”
Heat: scorching · possessive protector · she falls first
Marlowe Prentiss reads fire for a living. Where it starts, how it moves, what it wants. Fire has never once lied to her. The people in her valley are another matter.
Five years ago the Blackspine Fire took seven of their own, and the town decided whose fault it was. They named Rhett Cabot the Widowmaker, and they have not stopped since. Marlowe loved him once. She left anyway.
Now she is home, and the mountains are burning wrong. Fires start where no lightning falls and run against the wind, clearing out the exact families about to lose their land. The only other person who can read the pattern is the man she never stopped wanting, and someone means to pin all of it on him.
They took a whole town’s grief and made a weapon of it. Marlowe is going to take it back.
Backfire is a standalone dark second-chance romance with a guaranteed happily-ever-after. For adult readers.
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