Where the Fire Breaks

Jack Callahan leaves Timberline every fire season.

Owen Hartmann has spent six years pretending he doesn’t mind.

But when wildfire threatens their Montana town, the wildland firefighter and large-animal veterinarian find themselves fighting the same danger from opposite sides—and confronting the relationship they’ve kept comfortably undefined for far too long.

Jack believes loving him means accepting that he’ll always leave.

Owen never needed him to stay.

He just needs Jack to come home.