After the Fire (American Cupid #1)

When flames destroy her fresh start, a grieving paramedic offers shelter. But the real danger isn’t the fire, it’s falling for a man when her ex-husband wants her dead.

Lydia Harper did everything right. New town. A new name on the mailbox. A farmhouse at the end of a quiet road where the man she’d run from could never find her.

She was wrong.

The fire came in the dark, while her children slept.

She doesn’t remember the blow that put her on the floor.

She doesn’t remember the arms that carried her out.

She wakes in a hospital with smoke in her lungs, both kids alive beside her, and one impossible certainty settling into her bones: the fire was set on purpose ... and the man who set it isn’t finished.

Paramedic Ethan Cole was there that night. He knows what trauma looks like; he’s been carrying his own for three years. Taking Lydia and her children in was supposed to be simple. A few days. A locked door between them and the cold.

But the man who lit that fire didn’t come to frighten her. He came with a plan and even Lydia, who once loved him, won’t grasp the whole of it until it’s nearly too late.

And then there’s the stranger.

No one can say where he came from. He was there in the worst of it and gone before anyone could ask his name. He keeps turning up. On an empty road, in a doorway, at the exact moment the dark begins to win. Lydia’s little girl is certain she knows what he is.

The grown-ups aren’t ready to believe her.

As the truth about that night claws its way to the surface and the net of danger draws tighter, Ethan and Lydia have to decide what they’re willing to risk ... for each other, for two frightened kids, for a second chance neither of them believed they’d be given.

Because some fires burn everything down.

And some forge what the flames can’t touch.

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