Ink and Ashes

<p><strong>Ink and Ashes is a small town romantic suspense standalone by Alexandra Lee.</strong></p><p></p><p><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>If you play with fire you're bound to get burned.</strong></p><p></p><p><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Holland</strong></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Investigative journalism is a cutthroat industry. It's all about fighting for the best story and exposing the biggest secrets. People are bound to get hurt but I never realized how hurt until the person the stories are about became me.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Everyone thinks I'm running from my past. But I didn't come to Ember Grove to hide-I came searching for my next story. Wildfires have been tearing through this town and something about them doesn't add up. With my career in ruins this feels like my last shot at redemption.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Or it could be a fast track to even more disaster.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Except this disaster has a name: Colson Caldwell. The fire lieutenant battling the wildfires is as guarded as he is compelling. He doesn't trust me or my investigation and I can't decide if he's my greatest obstacle...or the key to uncovering the truths hidden within the flames.</span></p><p></p><p><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Colson</strong></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>I've spent years fighting wildfires but none have burned like Holland Rhodes. She's a force of nature-tenacious reckless and far too curious for her own good. She claims she's here to investigate the wildfires but all I see is a woman trying to outrun her own demons. She doesn't understand this town its people or the risks she's taking by digging where she doesn't belong.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>I've worked hard to build walls around the life I have left but Holland has a way of breaking them all down. And the closer she gets to the flames the harder it is for me to decide what's more important: protecting my heart or protecting her.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Because the flames she's chasing aren't just out in the wild-they're closing in on us too.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>And as much as I wish I could I refuse to let her walk into that fire alone.</span></p>