Hope Flames

Emma Burnett is thirty-two and back in the town she used to call home, where she is opening her own veterinary practice. She likes being on her own, and she has no intention of letting a man derail her plans a second time. Her independence is hard-won, and she means to keep it.

Luke McCormack has his own reasons for staying unattached. He is divorced, and he never lacks for female company when he wants it. The one steady relationship in his life is with his police dog. Even so, something about Emma keeps pulling at him, and he cannot quite shake it.

Then a run of local break-ins leaves Emma feeling exposed, and she turns for help to the man who has stirred her interest for the first time in years. As Luke works to keep her safe, two people who believed they had the rules of love figured out start to find that they may have been wrong about what they could still have.

Hope Flames is a small-town romance and the first book in a new series by Jaci Burton.