The Fireman’s Fake Fiancée: A Fake Engagement, Protector Hero, Forced Proximity Romance

About The Fireman’s Fake Fiancée: A Fake Engagement, Protector Hero, Forced Proximity Romance

Fake engagement. Real heat. In a small town that believes in second chances, can a guarded hero and a chaos-sweet sunshine turn a spark into something fireproof?

When free-spirited ceramic artist Ember Quinn watches her mountain studio go up in flames, she loses more than clay and kilns—she loses the life she built with her bare, paint-streaked hands. Enter Clay Walker: stoic, broad-shouldered firefighter with a past he won’t discuss and a glare that says not on my watch. He drags her out of the blaze, wraps her in his jacket…and into the town’s favorite love story when a paperwork mix-up lists him as her fiancé.

One headline in the Devil’s Peak Gazette and Copper Mountain is obsessed with their “romance born from the ashes.” To protect Ember from gossip—and keep a nosy insurance investigator from tanking her claim—Clay agrees to fake it: hand-holding at town events, couple’s trivia, matching smiles for the cameras. No touching.

No kissing. No catching feelings. But rules melt faster than wax at a bonfire.

Soon the illusion starts to feel dangerously real—and when Ember learns what Clay’s been burning to forget, she must decide if this mountain man is worth the fight.