Fight

A commitment-phobic firefighter falls for an EMT with a troubled past in St. James’s hot and heavy Sky Ridge Hotshots series starter, which was originally self-published and went viral on TikTok earlier this year. Prescott “Scottie” Timmons fled her old life in Arkansas for Sky Ridge, Wash., where she finds work as an EMT. She’s never met a man like Callahan Woods, a hunky local wildland firefighter with whom she falls into instalust. Though Callahan wants to keep their relationship purely physical, Scottie starts to feel more­—until he ghosts her. The pair are thrown back together, however, when Scottie winds up trapped on a mountain trail during a snow storm and Callahan comes to her rescue. Forced to ride out the days’ long blizzard together in a fire tower, Callahan explains his good reasons for ghosting, and Scottie divulges the dark truth about her life in Arkansas. Their relationship quickly heats up again, but will it last once they return to civilization? Readers who dislike the miscommunication or instalove tropes may be frustrated, but the spicy scenes are well done, and there are enough shocking set pieces—including natural disasters and Scottie’s emotional backstory—to keep the pages turning. This sizzles. (Nov.)