Dead Fall (Blackline Crew #3)

Cal Brennan is the one source I should never touch.

I came to Copper Creek to investigate a wildfire contractor linked to four dead firefighters. Cal is the quiet hotshot sawyer who may know exactly what happened. He is guarded, disciplined, and impossible to read.

He is also hiding a name that could blow the entire case wide open.

I knew who he was before I ever walked into his bar.

Getting close to him was supposed to be part of the job.

Instead, every interview pulls me deeper into the life he built beneath a borrowed name.

He listens when I speak. He sees the things I work hardest to hide.

And when a sudden winter storm traps me in a remote mountain cabin, Cal crosses a whiteout to come back for me.

One night. One cabin. Every professional rule I have left.

By morning, I have to confess the truth. I did not stumble onto his secret. I came to Copper Creek because of it.

Now the case is accelerating, Cal’s powerful father knows he has been found, and the evidence that could expose years of corruption may cost Cal the crew that became his family.

I could lose my career, my credibility, and the story I risked everything to tell.

Cal could lose the only life he has ever chosen for himself.

But walking away from him may be the one choice neither of us can survive.

For readers of Pamela Clare, Laura Griffin, and Rebecca Zanetti, Dead Fall delivers scorching chemistry, emotional suspense, a protective hotshot hero, a determined investigative journalist, and one snowbound cabin where every secret comes dangerously close to the surface.

Hotshot Firefighter Romance ? Forbidden Workplace Romance ? Forced Proximity ? Snowed-In Together ? Protective Hero ? He Falls First ? Guaranteed HEA