Char's Explosion

He broke three men on a gravel shoulder for putting hands on her. She wiped the blood off her lip and finished hooking the tow chain. Now the only thing hotter than the fire he's fighting is what's burning between them.

Bonnie Hargrave runs Hargrave's Tow & Recovery with one truck, two fists, and four years of proving every man wrong who said a woman couldn't handle a wrecker alone. When a towing kingpin with arsonists on retainer wants her lot, she tells his enforcers where to shove the offer.

Bad move.

When the firebombs come for her garage, the man standing between her and the flames isn't a stranger. He's Char, the Memphis Marauders' fire expert, and he hasn't stopped burning since Chicago took his badge and a dead family took his sleep. He doesn't do soft. Hasn't let anyone past the warmth he wears like armor since the night he learned that doing the right thing can destroy you. But a woman who pulls trucks from ditches at three a.m. and swings a tire iron like she was born holding one is the one thing his carefully banked fire can't resist.

In Memphis, fire doesn't ask permission and neither do the Marauders.

Some men run from the flames. Some walk straight through them for the woman who made the fire worth surviving.