Second Chance Spark

I left him for the life I was supposed to want. Now he’s the only thing that still feels like home.

I came back to Huckleberry Creek just to check on my grandfather, pull a few shifts at his bar, and prove the past couldn’t touch me anymore.

Then Doc collapses at work—and the man who responds to my 911 call turns out to be my first love. My most reckless choice. The firefighter I left behind when I chose the future my family had planned for me.

Now Doc needs me to keep the saloon running, my Chicago law firm still thinks it owns every hour of my life, and Diego keeps appearing exactly when I need him. At the hospital. Behind the bar. Beside me after closing, slipping back into our old rhythm as if all the years between us never happened.

Except we’re not the same people we were then.

The chemistry is hotter. The stakes are higher. And one kiss is enough to remind me that no one has ever made me feel as alive—or as dangerously close to throwing my careful plans straight into the fire.