Smolder & Steel: A Scarred Hero, a Spark Rekindled, a Searing Romance

When a string of "accidental" site fires turns into a calculated threat, a scarred ex-firefighter and the fire investigator who once left him must team up before the next match is struck.

Gabe Maddox builds with steel because it doesn't lie. After the blaze that ended his career, the construction site is the only place his hands stop shaking—until Sloane Barrett arrives with a badge, a case file, and the same storm-gray eyes that used to believe in him. Anonymous warnings scorch the job site, deliveries come tainted, and a ghost on the payroll points to an inside job. The pattern is bigger than one town—and someone is watching their every move.

Forced into long nights and closer quarters, Gabe and Sloane follow burn patterns and paper trails through a web of shell companies and staged disasters. Each discovery tightens the noose; each near-miss reignites what smolders between them. To save the rebuild—and the people depending on it—they'll have to expose a mastermind who turns progress into tinder…and risk the one thing they swore they wouldn't touch again: each other.

Gritty, intimate, and wired with heat, Smolder & Steel delivers high-stakes romantic suspense, a battle-tested heroine, a battle-scarred hero, and a second chance that could save a town—or burn them down.