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Hot cowboy volunteer firefighter and damsel in distress, who could ask for more?

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Blurb:

Becket Grayson, rancher and volunteer firefighter assists a damsel in distress when her car catches fire on a dry country road near Hellfire, Texas. When he discovers she was his little brother’s classmate and is running away from an abusive ex-boyfriend, he offers to help.

Kinsey Phillips is desperate to get away from her ex-boyfriend who is a mean drunk with a habit of beating her whenever he feels like it. When she heads back to the only home she’s ever known, her old high school crush comes to her rescue. With the help of Becket and the entire Grayson family, they struggle to keep Kinsey safe when her ex-boyfriend comes to reclaim her. 

Warning: Things are heating up in Hellfire, Texas.

Excerpt:

A puff of dark smoke drifted up from a stalled vehicle on the shoulder of the road ahead. The puff grew into a billowing cloud, rising into the air.

Becket slowed as he neared the disabled vehicle.

A black-haired woman stood in the V of the open driver’s door, attempting to push the vehicle off the road. She didn’t need to worry about getting it off the road so much as getting herself away from the smoke and fire before the gas tank ignited and blew the car to pieces.

A hundred yards away from the potential disaster, Becket slammed on his brakes, shifted into park, and jumped out of his truck. “Get away from the car!” he yelled, running toward the idiot woman. “Get away before it explodes!”

The woman shot a brief glance back at him before continuing on her mission to get the car completely off the road and into the bone-dry grass.

Becket ran up behind her, grabbed her around the middle, and hauled her away from the now-burning vehicle.

“Let go of me!” she screamed, tearing at his hands. “I have to get it off the road.”

“Damn it, lady, it’s not safe.” Not knowing when the tank would ignite, he didn’t have time to argue. Becket spun her around, threw her over his shoulder in a fireman’s carry, and jogged away from the burning vehicle.

“I have to get it off the road,” she said, her voice breaking with each jolt to her gut.

“Leave it where it is. I’ll call in the fire department, they’ll have the fire out before you know it. In the meantime, that vehicle is dangerous.” He didn’t stop or put her down until he was back behind his truck.

He set her on her feet, but she darted away from him, running back toward the vehicle, her long, jet-black hair flying out behind her.

Becket lunged, grabbed her arm, and jerked her back. “Are you crazy?”

“I can’t leave it in the road,” she sobbed. “Don’t you see? He’ll find it. He’ll find me!” She tried prying his fingers free of her arm.

He wasn’t letting go.

“The fire will ignite the gas tank. Unless you want to be fried like last year’s turkey, you need to stand clear.” He held her back to his chest, forcing her to view the fire and the inherent danger.

She sagged against him, her body shaking with the force of her sobs. “I have to hide it.”

“Can I trust you to stay put?”

She nodded, her hair falling into her face.

“I’m making a call to the Hellfire Volunteer Firefighters Association.”

Before he finished talking, she was shaking her head. “No. You can’t. No one can know I’m here.”

“Why?” He settled his hands on her shoulders and was about to turn her to face him when an explosion rocked the ground.

Becket grabbed the woman around the waist.

She yelped and whimpered as Becket ducked behind the tailgate of his pickup, and waited for the debris to settle. Then he slowly rose.

Smoke and fire shot into the air. Where the car had been now was a raging inferno. Black smoke curled into the sky.

“Sweetheart, I won’t have to call 911. In the next fifteen minutes, this place will be surrounded by firefighters.”

Her head twisted left and right as she attempted to pry his hands away from her waist. “You’re hurting me.”

He released her immediately. “The sheriff will want a statement from you.”

“No. I can’t.” Again, she darted away from him. “I have to get as far away from here as possible.”

Becket snagged her arm again and whipped her around. “You can’t just leave the scene of a fire. There will be an investigation.” He stared down at her, finally getting a look at her. “Do I know you?”

“I don’t…” The young woman glanced up, eyes narrowing. She reached up a hand and rubbed some of the soot off his face. Recognition dawned and her eyes grew round. “Becket? Becket Grayson?”

He nodded. “And I know I should know you, but I can’t quite put my finger on it.”

Her widened eyes filled with tears, and she flung her arms around his neck. “Oh, dear God. Becket!”

He held her, struggling to remember who she was.

Her body trembled, her arms like clamps around his neck. 

“Hey.” Surprised by her outburst, Becket patted her back. “It’s going to be okay.”

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