Stream of Fire

<p>A line of fire can reveal more than danger-it can expose the truth someone has spent years hiding. When veteran firefighter Ava Hale returns to the ridge where a devastating blaze once changed her life she finds far more than burned earth waiting for her. A silent pattern lies beneath the ash a design built with intention and the one man who understands its meaning steps out of the shadows the moment she arrives.</p><p>Kade Mercer has always operated at the edge of control studying destruction the way others study maps. His presence sparks old instincts in Ava-sharp focus rising tension and the unmistakable pull of unfinished understanding. Their past connection is tangled in a night neither of them can forget a night where Ava saved one life but lost pieces of herself she never reclaimed.</p><p>Now the patterns between them resurface with unsettling precision. Every choice Ava makes reveals another layer of Kade's true purpose and every step she takes draws her deeper into a truth she has spent years avoiding. The danger surrounding them is real but so is the clarity she finds in the fire's echo.</p><p>In facing the valley again Ava must confront not only Kade's intentions-but the part of herself that has been waiting to break free.</p>