Etched in Flame (Iron & Heat #6)

He survived the fire. He never expected to fall for the man who could see every scar.

Gideon Cross has spent six years trying to outrun one terrible night.

A veteran firefighter with a body marked by burns and a heart locked behind steel, Gideon doesn’t want sympathy. He doesn’t want questions. And he definitely doesn’t want anyone getting close enough to see what lives beneath his scars.

Then Nico Reyes opens the door.

A tattoo artist with ink covering his own skin, Nico knows that scars aren’t something to pity or erase. They’re history. They’re proof that someone survived. When Gideon walks into his studio asking if his scars can disappear, Nico gives him an answer he isn’t prepared to hear.

They can be reclaimed.

What begins with guarded conversations and carefully chosen touches soon becomes impossible to resist. But when a forgotten photograph from Gideon’s past uncovers secrets surrounding the fire that changed his life, the danger isn’t finished.

Someone wants the truth buried.

And the closer Gideon gets to Nico, the more terrifying his greatest fear becomes: losing the man he finally allowed himself to love.

Gideon spent years believing survival was all he deserved.

Nico is about to show him that surviving isn’t the same as living.

Etched in Flame

is a high-heat MM gay firefighter × tattoo artist romance featuring scar reclamation, intense chemistry, emotional healing, protective heroes, a mystery rooted in the past, and a hard-won happily-ever-after.

Iron & Heat Series, Book 6 — Standalone.