Jessamine Cole

Mara Caldwell traded Montana's endless skies for Hollywood's bright lights, building a reputation training horses for the movies. But success came at a price — leaving behind her family's century-old ranch and Jake Morrison, the man who loved her enough to let her go.

Now a massive wildfire is bearing down on Copper Creek, and Mara's racing home to save everything she abandoned. Her father is barely hanging on, and Jake — weathered by years of responsibility and her betrayal — is running the ranch as foreman. He makes it clear her return changes nothing about the work that needs doing.

Fighting fire alongside the man she left behind ignites more than old arguments.

As flames close in from three sides, they must evacuate two hundred head of cattle and prize breeding horses. Working through smoke-choked days and sleepless nights, old desires smolder beneath bitter truths about the night she disappeared without explanation.

Can love survive the flames of regret, or will some bridges burn beyond repair?