
Michelle “Chelle” Phillips loves flying, even over the raging forest fires she helps battle. Up there, in her plane, she feels close to the people she’s lost and escapes the weight of a past she wants to leave far below.
When she accepts a short-term contract in the small town of Lake Ridge, she expects to do what she’s always done: fly, help where she can, avoid deep connections. Then she, her plane, and her one suitcase will move on to the next horizon.
Levi Marino complicates things. The hot firefighter, and son of her new Fire Chief, is drawn to Chelle from the moment he hears her voice over the emergency radio. Suddenly, Chelle isn’t just fighting fires. She’s fighting off the urge to build attachments to the kind, courageous man she doesn’t want to leave heartbroken.
Through flames and fear, ill-advised living situations, and unearthed secrets, Chelle navigates the realities of forming new friendships and redefining family, hoping she doesn’t crash-land and lose more than she already has.
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Pearl Townsend-Hurly is the Royal Jeweler of Parovia, the woman responsible for making the royals sparkle from tiara to toe ring, a job members of her family have had for generations.
Prince Damien is the future King, relying on Pearl to provide the Christmas-themed jewelry for his engagement to his would-be “perfect” Princess, Eliza Peirce.
When the flawlessly fitting Christmas Crown is mysteriously stolen, though, Pearl and the Prince end up shifting their professional partnership into a true friendship as they work together on a new addition to the literal royal family jewels.
Through shocking revelations about the missing crown, hard truths and the Queen’s skepticism about Eliza, a drunken game of 21 Questions, and a royal ball, Pearl and the Prince will have to navigate the kind of love that can lead friendship to more than friends or friendship to regret.