Singled Out by the Mountain Man Hotshot
(2026)(The second book in the Copper Peak Blaze series)
A novel by Lilah Hart
A steamy hotshot romance about a firefighter certain he already burned his shot at a home, and the floor manager who's only ever been the useful one—thrown together for one gala weekend before his crew takes him back up the mountain.
She runs the room. He came back down it wanting her.
I've spent twenty-three years being the useful one. They promote you, praise you, ship you wherever you're needed—and never once fight to keep you. Being good at something has only ever cost me the people around me. So I keep everyone at arm's length, hand them a task instead of myself, and I don't let myself want a thing I'll only have to leave.
Then Noah Dewitt walked into my dining room straight off two weeks on a fireline and refused to be handled.
He's the crew's second, the one they pulled out of the pack to lead and never made permanent—so he knows exactly what it is to be chosen for what you do and wanted by no one. He's quiet, wry, older than me by more than a decade, and certain from the first night in a way I've never had a man be about me. When the resort offers me a bigger room two hours down the mountain, taking it should be easy. Leaving always is.
But Noah's done being the man who lets people go without a word. And three days is all he needs to decide I'm the one thing he's going to ask for out loud—in front of the whole town, where he can't take it back.
Click Read Now or Buy Now for the mountain man hotshot who walked off the fireline, singled out the woman nobody thinks to keep, and refused to be one more clean goodbye.
Featuring these tropes:
She runs the room. He came back down it wanting her.
I've spent twenty-three years being the useful one. They promote you, praise you, ship you wherever you're needed—and never once fight to keep you. Being good at something has only ever cost me the people around me. So I keep everyone at arm's length, hand them a task instead of myself, and I don't let myself want a thing I'll only have to leave.
Then Noah Dewitt walked into my dining room straight off two weeks on a fireline and refused to be handled.
He's the crew's second, the one they pulled out of the pack to lead and never made permanent—so he knows exactly what it is to be chosen for what you do and wanted by no one. He's quiet, wry, older than me by more than a decade, and certain from the first night in a way I've never had a man be about me. When the resort offers me a bigger room two hours down the mountain, taking it should be easy. Leaving always is.
But Noah's done being the man who lets people go without a word. And three days is all he needs to decide I'm the one thing he's going to ask for out loud—in front of the whole town, where he can't take it back.
Click Read Now or Buy Now for the mountain man hotshot who walked off the fireline, singled out the woman nobody thinks to keep, and refused to be one more clean goodbye.
Featuring these tropes:
- Mountain man hotshot, pulled out of the pack to lead and lonely at the top
Front-of-house manager who's everybody's fixer and nobody's first choice
He fell first—and saw straight past the armor
Instalove on a ticking clock: one gala weekend before his crew rolls out
Virgin heroine, possessive alpha hero
GENRE: Contemporary Small-Town Firefighter Romance (Wildland/Hotshot)
TROPES: instalove, he fell first, age gap, forced proximity, workplace romance, small-town, virgin heroine, ticking-clock, mountain man firefighter
TONE: quiet intensity, fast fall, tender first-time heat
HEAT LEVEL: steamy open-door, first-time chemistry, possessive alpha heat
COMPS: Copper Peak Sparks series, Copper Peak Blaze Book 1, mountain man instalove, wildland hotshot romance
Genre: Romance