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USA Today bestselling author Naima Simone heats up the page with intensity and wit in this romance between a pro hockey player and a firefighter, both struggling to move on from the past.

Being a firefighter isnt easy.

Especially for a Black woman.

Working with family helps a little.

But when somebody from your company doesnt come back from a call, its brutal--as in, Howm I supposed to go on? brutal.

And one death took me to a really dark place.

A year later, Im at the Pirates hockey training facility.

Just another day on the job.

Until I find a charred journal.

I look inside for the owners name, but the words on the page punch me in the gut.

Its like reading my own thoughts.

Reliving my own pain.

The journal belongs to Solomon Young, left-winger for the Pirates--a father and widower.

When I return it, Im racked with guilt for the invasion of privacy.

The look Solomon gives me is cold as ice.

But damn if that man isnt hot as hell.

Now hes stuck in my brain.

And fate seems intent on making us face off.