It should have been me.
The words haunt me as I try to move on from the loss of one of my men, but no matter how hard I try to outrun them, they always catch up to me. Being a firefighter is a work of heart, and the men and women of Firehouse Nine are like my family. Hell, one of them is family seeing as how my foster brother and I work in the same firehouse. But losing one of your own alters you in a way you never understand until it happens.
Being sent to the union shrink was less than ideal. But when it was either go and talk about my feelings or be benched indefinitely, I swallowed my pride and went to the appointment. I wasn’t sure what I was expecting but falling hard and fast for the woman who’s supposed to ask me about my feelings wasn’t it.
Steel gray eyes that see straight through to your soul and a pair of silver-framed glasses that she adjusts when she’s nervous, Hanna Smith stole my heart as she sat across from me in her tiny office. And with every picture of her newest crochet project and the way she calls me ‘fireman,’ I don’t think I ever want it back.
What started out as a way to stay on the force has become something deeper. Something more important than anything I’ve ever done in my entire life. And as long as she’ll have me, I’ll do what I have to in order to be the man she deserves to have.
Hanna is a therapist who is immediately attracted to Miles, which creates a complication as he is one of her patients. But, it creates less of a complication than it probably should have, although this was one of those liberties that was taken for the plot that I was willing to ignore. They ignore the attraction, sort of, until they decide that what they have is worth exploring.
The other characters were interesting, and it's clear that we are going to be meeting them again when they are the leads of their own stories. I thought it was balanced well and we saw enough of them to know who they are, but not too much that they removed us from the main part of the story.
Thought the therapy subplot sort of resolved quickly and dropped away once the romance of it started, so that felt like it was resolved a little too quickly compared to what I was expecting. And as a result of this it did feel a little unresolved and sort of pushed to the side. This wasn't enough to make me feel like I didn't enjoy the story, but it definitely is an area where I wanted more than I felt like I got from this title. But, I did enjoy it.
Tropes
🧶 soft & cozy
🚒 firefighter romance
🧡 foster family rep
🧶 grandma hobbies
🚒 grumpy/sunshine
🧡 forced proximity
🧶 caretaking
🚒 MCs in their 30’s
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