Heating Up Paradise — Lizbeth Selvig

Kelly Crockett longs to be known for her culinary skill. But achieving her dream seems impossible when Fate insists on sabotaging every idea for transforming her award-winning Denver coffee-and-sandwich shop into a top-tier restaurant.Kelly's life's-a-party attitude helps her stand out from her triplet sisters, but it's useless when a fire at her restaurant sends her appearance on a career-building cooking show up in flames. Devastated, she heads home to vast and beautiful Paradise Ranch where, while helping in her sister's new restaurant, she conceives a bold plan for rescuing her dreams. But Fate isn't done throwing obstacles in her path, not the least of which is a gorgeous but troubled man who's all wrong for her.Damien Finney believes that after three years as a firefighter, two tours in Afghanistan, and one year in PTSD therapy, he's ready to leave hell and start the next chapter of his life. After rigorous training, he's earned a spot on an elite smokejumper crew, but then a failed jump lands him right back on the Devil's doorstep.After Afghanistan, Damien found healing at Paradise Ranch in a program that paired veterans with wild mustangs. With his smoke-jumping career in jeopardy, he returns to the ranch and the horses, seeking a miracle cure to save his future. The last thing he needs is a bubbly extrovert-of-a-woman invading his refuge and throwing his plans off course.Although they fight it, the heat between Kelly and Damien's opposite personalities builds, but there's trouble in Paradise: Kelly's plans cause strife with her sisters. Damien's past haunts him. And when wildfires threaten the land they both love, each must decide if the heat will forge a new future or tear them apart. Are they brave enough to see that buried beneath the dreams they hoped for is the dream they actually need-one that's theirs together?