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** spoiler alert ** Brooke is something of a drifter who is only in town long enough to clean out her grandmother's house before selling it. While she's doing that, she's working as a temp EMT for a firehouse. It's there that she meets Zach, one of the firefighters who is over the top hot and sexy. And he's just as interested in her as she is in him. But Brooke knows she's not in town long and that starting a relationship would just lead to heartbreak, possibly for both of them. Especially since, the longer she stays at the firehouse, the more she feels a sense of belonging and acceptance. But Zach is too irresistible and so she tells herself it's just pleasure before she moves on and out...but she knows she's lying to herself.

This was just meh. Zach and Brooke are a little on the boring side and I felt like there wasn't much actual tension or angst between them. They have some hot sex, which is the plus here. Zach wants Brooke and she wants him, but she dithers for weeks about whether she wants to give in. So she does, but then says its one time only. And then she dithers for a week or more about whether she'll sleep with him again. And then she does but she says it's not a relationship. And then she falls in love and its Zach who says no relationship. It seems like it should be a lot of angst, but I wasn't feeling any of it. And although I enjoyed the camaraderie of the firehouse and what not, it kinda felt like a junior high school with them all gossipy about each other's sex lives and embarrassing each other about who's screwing who. I just didn't love reading about it. I did kinda enjoy the suspense plot of this though. It's subtle and not really the focus, but Zach keeps identifying arson at their sites and the arson investigators seems to be sweeping it under the rug. But Zach learns why and it's because it was an inside job...ooh. So yeah, this was an okay read. YMMV - I probably just wasn't feeling it and so wasn't connecting to the characters.