The Big Burn

<p><strong style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Smoke Gets in Your Eyes meets The Rosie Project</strong><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> in this sly big-hearted romantic comedy about bonfires Christians death grief and the awkward miracles of falling in love.</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>At Big Burn Funeral Services program manager Ray Wells spends his days balancing the practical and the profound. He handles ashes and paperwork comforts families in shock and somehow keeps a rural funeral campground running on time. After years of hard living and harder regrets Ray is learning to stay steady: to tend the flames not throw himself into them.</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Then Bonnie Betts walks into his life: a Vegas-born Jesus girl with more conviction than caution an infectious laugh and eyes that dare him to believe in grace again. She's come east chasing peace and a little forgiveness. Ray's rulebook: no romance no risk no repeat mistakes doesn't stand a chance. Between midnight swims and quiet prayers Bonnie becomes both muse and mirror showing him what he's been afraid to face: that faith and desire aren't opposites but different ways of reaching for light.</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Around them the Big Burn community swirls with humanity at its rawest: families fractured by loss a grieving veteran who refuses pity a sister caught between devotion and rebellion and church folk who bring covered dishes and judgment in equal measure. The result is dark humor</span><strong style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> </strong><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>with a beating heart where tears and laughter mingle and no one leaves untouched.</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>As the summer burns on Ray and Bonnie must decide what survives when everything else is reduced to ash: habit or hope guilt or forgiveness safety or love. In the glow of a fire where endings become beginnings they discover that redemption isn't a miracle granted once but a practice lived every day.</span></p><p><strong style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>The Big Burn</strong><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> is a sharp funny and deeply human story that treats faith with respect and curiosity not sermons; that explores sin and longing without shame; and that finds beauty in the rituals of death and grief. It's for readers who like their small-town stories smoky and sincere their romances tangled with real-life stakes and their endings warm enough to carry them past the last page.</span></p><p><strong style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>You'll love this book if you enjoy:</strong></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>• Small-town workplace romances with moral tension and messy grace</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>• Conservative Christian culture seen from the inside: honest wry and tender</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>• A quirky setting in which death</span><strong style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> </strong><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>grief</span><strong style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> </strong><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>sex and humor</span><strong style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> </strong><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>coexist without undercutting one another</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>• A redeemed bad-boy hero and a heroine whose faith is both compass and spark</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>A sexy funny and heart-filled modern romance </span><strong style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>The Big Burn </strong><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>proves that even in the ashes of loss love can blaze brighter than ever.</span></p><p></p>