June's Mountain Man
(2026)(The second book in the Firefighters of Harrow Valley series)
A Story by Roxy Lush
Auditing a fire station was supposed to be simple.
Falling for the older captain whose station I was inspecting?
That was dangerous.
I came to Harrow Valley with a clipboard, a checklist, and fifteen years of rules.
Do the audit.
File the report.
Leave.
Then I met Boyd Hurst.
Fire captain. Broad chest. Grey at the temples. Twelve years of command in every line of him.
The kind of man who fills a station without raising his voice.
The kind of man I should not want.
I’m here to inspect his crew.
His gear.
His records.
Not the way his hand feels against my jaw.
Not the heat in his eyes when I look past the rank and find the man underneath.
Boyd is control wrapped in command.
I am professionalism built on rules.
But the longer I spend in his station, the harder it becomes to pretend this is just another audit.
Because this time, doing my job could cost me the one man who makes me want to break every rule I have.
I should file my report and leave.
It’s what I’ve done at forty-three stations before this one.
But Boyd Hurst isn’t just another fire captain.
And if he wants me, he’ll have to prove the man beneath the rank is brave enough to claim what he wants.
June’s Mountain Man is a steamy small-town romance featuring a curvy county fire marshal, an older protective fire captain, professional conflict, workplace heat, found family, he falls first, and one controlled mountain man learning to let down his guard.
Genre: Romance
Falling for the older captain whose station I was inspecting?
That was dangerous.
I came to Harrow Valley with a clipboard, a checklist, and fifteen years of rules.
Do the audit.
File the report.
Leave.
Then I met Boyd Hurst.
Fire captain. Broad chest. Grey at the temples. Twelve years of command in every line of him.
The kind of man who fills a station without raising his voice.
The kind of man I should not want.
I’m here to inspect his crew.
His gear.
His records.
Not the way his hand feels against my jaw.
Not the heat in his eyes when I look past the rank and find the man underneath.
Boyd is control wrapped in command.
I am professionalism built on rules.
But the longer I spend in his station, the harder it becomes to pretend this is just another audit.
Because this time, doing my job could cost me the one man who makes me want to break every rule I have.
I should file my report and leave.
It’s what I’ve done at forty-three stations before this one.
But Boyd Hurst isn’t just another fire captain.
And if he wants me, he’ll have to prove the man beneath the rank is brave enough to claim what he wants.
June’s Mountain Man is a steamy small-town romance featuring a curvy county fire marshal, an older protective fire captain, professional conflict, workplace heat, found family, he falls first, and one controlled mountain man learning to let down his guard.
Genre: Romance
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