He's loved her since high school. He just had to make 94 PowerPoint slides to say it.

A small-town firefighter romance about the firefighter who waited seventeen years, the artist learning to come home to herself, and the Colorado town that refuses to let either of them do it alone.

Harlow Green came back to Collins, Colorado with a chocolate lab named Cassidy, an MFA she stopped using, and three years of bruises she is finally done carrying. She is not looking for a love story. She is looking for somewhere safe enough to start painting again. Then her Victorian decides to murder her with a chandelier.

Captain Jake Bowers has been in love with Harlow since junior year of high school. He has 94 PowerPoint slides on the subject. Charts. Graphs. A risk-assessment matrix. He also has the only crew in town qualified to keep responding to her possibly-haunted house, and a barn studio he built on faith before she even knew she needed one.

In six weeks, Harlow’s first solo gallery show opens in Denver. On her ex-husband’s territory. Jake promised to stand beside her, not in front. It might be the hardest promise he has ever kept. And the 247-member town group chat, plus one peacock named Kevin in a tactical vest, has decided these two have waited long enough.

The odds were low. But that was always going to be okay.

Book 1 of the Station 12 series. Standalone with HEA. Open-door heat. No cliffhangers.

✦ He falls first (and has been falling since 1994 American History class)
✦ Slow burn that earns every page of the wait
✦ Small-town firefighter romance · Forced proximity · Found family
✦ Survivor heroine finding her voice, and her paint colors, again
✦ Patient hero who built her a studio on faith and learned which coffee she drinks
✦ Open-door heat · Standalone HEA · Kindle Unlimited

For readers who love Lyla Sage, Elsie Silver, Lena Hendrix, and Hannah Grace’s Wildfire.