Hot Shot

<p><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>I've been in love with Fox Nelson since I was young.</strong></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Everyone knows it too. My friends my family half the town of North Ridge-they all know about my hopeless crush on the moody rugged mountain man next door.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Everyone except Fox himself.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>And maybe that's for the best. Because Fox Nelson is a wildland firefighter who jumps out of planes into burning forests for a living. He's dangerous damaged and way out of my league.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>But lately something's changed.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Fox isn't looking at me like a friend anymore. He's looking at me like a man looks at a woman he wants. And when he touches me-those skilled rough hands lingering just a little too long-it doesn't feel friendly at all.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>I tell myself it doesn't mean anything.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>He tells himself the same thing.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>But when the summer heat becomes unbearable and we're thrown together more than ever the line between friendship and something deeper starts to blur.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Fox says he's not good for me. That his demons are too dark his job too dangerous.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>I say I'm tired of being treated like I'm made of glass.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>He says I don't know what I'm asking for.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>I say I'm about to show him exactly what I want.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Because I have one more secret Fox doesn't know about-one that will change everything between us.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>And I'm finally ready to tell him.</span></p><p></p><p><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>NOTE: </strong><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>This series was previously published in 2017 where each book became instant USA Today bestsellers! On August 18th 2025 the trilogy is getting new life with new covers updated content (including an extra chapter in Wild Card) content warnings new formatting and is going into KU for the first time ever. You can read each book as a standalone as they revolve around a different couple and their hard-won HEAs however if you want to read in order it goes: Wild Card Maverick and Hot Shot.</span></p><p></p><p><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Content Warning: </strong><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Please see inside of the book using the Read Sample feature as this book has triggering topics.</span></p>