Overview

A rookie smokejumper. A battle-hardened river guide. One blown chute—and a wildfire rewriting every escape route.

Fresh-certified Miles Walker boards his first jump plane eager to prove himself. Thirty seconds later his parachute streamers, dumping him into the Blackfoot River. River guide Sky Whitfield hauls the hypothermic rookie onto his raft, certain the worst has passed—until the ridgeline detonates, flash floods choke the canyon, and the only way out is through a collapsing mine and a night of fire that keeps changing the rules.

With sparks raining down and oxygen running thin, Miles and Sky huddle under foil shelters, share body-heat, patch burns by head-lamp, and tape their wrists together so neither man vanishes in the smoke. What starts as survival necessity ignites into something hotter—rough hands turning gentle, quick breaths turning hungry—inside a back-country cabin that might burn before morning.

• High-heat M/M romance • Gruff veteran × rookie spark • Forced proximity & life-or-death stakes • Happy-For-Now ending

At 18,000 words (~70 pages), this adrenaline-spiked novella is perfect for a a weekend afternoon or a stolen evening when you crave survival tension and rough-edged tenderness in equal measure.

Love heroes who fight just as fiercely for each other as they do against the fire? Click Buy Now—or read free in Kindle Unlimited—and dive into the heat tonight.