She's bribing the fire captain with coffee. It's not working. Yet.
He’s the fire captain who won’t sign off on my coffee shop.
I’m the woman who won’t stop bringing him coffee anyway.
Levi Callahan is rigid, rule-following, and unfairly attractive in his uniform. He’s also the only thing standing between me and my grand opening.
Three building code violations. Two weeks to fix them. One grumpy fire captain who shows up every morning pretending he’s just doing his job.
But then his five-year-old daughter starts requesting extra whipped cream. And he starts lingering after inspections. And I start noticing the way his voice drops when he says my name.
I came to Pinewood Falls to start over. I didn’t come here to fall for the man next door.
Especially one who’s already been burned.
Slow Burn on Oak Street is a steamy small-town firefighter romance with a grumpy hero, a sunshine heroine, and a little girl who just wants extra whipped cream. It is a standalone novella in the Firehouse Row series set in the Pinewood Falls world.