Hold The Line

Four years ago she said three words on a fire radio.
A twenty-three-year-old died.

A slow-burn sapphic enemies-to-lovers romance set on a British Columbia wildfire crew. Standalone, with a guaranteed happy ending.

Superintendent Margo Iyer has spent every day since carrying a report she can't argue with. Now she has one season to prove she's still fit to command a wildfire crew - and the province has embedded the woman who that report to decide.

Dr. Joey Marchetti talks too much, drives a Corolla up a four-by-four road, and is the finest fire behaviour analyst in British Columbia. She stands by every word she published about Margo Iyer. She says so to her face, on a mountain, in the dark.

She is also carrying something she found in March that she has told nobody.

Ninety days. One truck. Two women who are extremely good at the same thing and cannot stand each other - until the season starts turning them into one instrument, and a night in a fire lookout with a single bed changes what either of them is willing to lose.

Then the wind comes off the plateau at forty kilometres an hour, and a town of eleven hundred people is standing directly in its path.

Expect

• Enemies to lovers - with real professional stakes, not a misunderstanding
• Forced proximity - ninety days in the cab of the same truck
• Only one bed - eighteen hundred metres up, at four in the morning
• Grumpy × sunshine, slow burn, and a late-in-life coming out handled with care
• Found family - a crew of nineteen who adopt her before their boss does