The good ol' boys' club has a saying: "Fire service is no place for a woman."

Lieutenant Isabela Delgado has two words for them: Watch me.

Fire Lieutenant Isabela "Izzy" Delgado has spent years proving herself on every call, earning every commendation, and protecting every member of her crew. But when her mentor's cancer diagnosis collides with department politics, she discovers that being twice as good still only gets you half the respect. The captain's promotion she's earned is about to be handed to a well-connected rival who plays golf with the brass and thinks women belong anywhere but the fireground.

ER nurse Jimmy Dalton knows better than to fall for someone who runs toward danger for a living. After watching a domestic violence patient he couldn't save walk back into hell, he's learned that caring too much only leads to heartbreak. But there's something about the fierce lieutenant who brings her captain to his emergency room—something that makes him want to be brave enough to try again.

When Jimmy writes a letter defending Izzy to her battalion chief, he thinks he's fighting for the woman he loves. Instead, he hands her enemies the ammunition they need to destroy her career. Now she's lost everything she's worked for, and he's lost the only person who's ever made him feel whole.

Sometimes the most dangerous fires are the ones that burn inside us.

Sometimes the only way out of the smoke is to trust someone else to lead you home.

And sometimes being strong means letting someone see you break.

From the author of Under Southern Stars and No Greater Love comes a romance about workplace discrimination, institutional betrayal, and two first responders learning that the bravest thing you can do is let someone see you vulnerable.

With custom fire graphics in both the ebook and printed copy, this is written by a real-life ER nurse and former firefighter lieutenant who knows exactly what it's like to be the woman they said didn't belong. BURN NOTICE tackles institutional sexism in fire service with the authority of lived experience. No sanitized workplace drama or "girl power" fantasy. This story is about a woman who's already proven herself a hundred times over and the brutal reality that it still isn't enough. The firefighting scenes are accurate down to the radio protocols. The ER sequences reflect actual shift dynamics. The workplace retaliation plot mirrors real cases I've had the misfortune to witness. And the romance? It's about two people whose jobs require them to be unbreakable, learning that vulnerability isn't weakness... it's the only way forward. Book 3 of the completed 4-book Code Blue Hearts series, featuring interconnected first responder romances grounded in medical and firefighting realism.

While all the Code Blue Hearts books are standalone, if you'd like to request free copies of Books 1 and 2, they are available on KU. If you don't have KU and would still like to "catch up" on the series, drop me a line on my author website, and I'll make sure you get a digital or print copy as you'd prefer!