I come back to my hometown as a nurse practitioner at the town clinic… and unknowingly enroll my child in his father’s flag football team.
Brennan Kallas, a volunteer firefighter who looks like Adonis with mesmerizing green eyes. The man every woman in town watches when the sirens go off.
He’s the man who broke my heart eight years ago.
The night he told me I was asking for too much, I left town pregnant and never looked back.
Now we sit on the same clinic board, sharing hallways, coffee runs, and loaded silences.
Then he carries two smoke-covered kids into my clinic after a house fire, ash streaked across his skin, looking like every bad decision I’ve ever made.
My son worships him by the second football practice.
One touch in a supply closet changes everything. And I start remembering why I loved him.
Then Brennan learns my son with green eyes is his. And now, the man I never recovered from might destroy me all over again.
Q. What inspired you to write this book? Was there a particular moment or event that sparked the idea?
Ans. I love stories about first responders, especially small-town volunteer firefighters.
Q. What research did you undertake to write this book? Were there any surprising or unexpected findings that you discovered during your research?
Ans. I drew on my childhood experience of going to my grandmother's farm in East Texas and what I remember about the close community there. I thought about the intermingling of families that had been there for generations and how their church was an integral part of the community.
Q. What was the biggest challenge you faced while writing this book? How did you overcome it?
Ans. My biggest challenge was creating authentic characters with depth.
Q. How did you go about developing the characters in the book? Were any of them based on real people or events?
Ans. As a person with ADHD, I wanted to show the struggles and funny sides of the disorder. I wanted to share how a person can be intelligent in some respects, yet have poor impulse control. I showed this in the different personalities of Brennan and Rhys.
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