Stay — Candi Wall

Love is the best reason to stay...and the very reason she has to leave.

Fire Captain Bracken Elliot knows how fragile life can be. Ever since a terrible tragedy tore his life apart, he's played strictly by the rules. But his whole existence has just been turned upside down. Not only has his sixteen-year-old son been kicked out of school, but the newest member of his fire and rescue team is an ex-Coast Guard diver whose one passion seems to be ignoring every order she receives-and driving him to distraction. So, Captain Stick-Up-His-Ass doesn't like the risks she takes? Tough shit, as far as Abby Burke is concerned. Of course ignoring Brack's orders is easy. Ignoring her attraction to him? Impossible. Too bad staying in one place isn't her forte. When Abby takes one chance too many, Brack's anger lights the kind of fire neither one of them wants to put out. Their night together is hot, intense, perfect...and Abby knows it can never last. Because there's not a chance in hell her past won't catch up with her.

Warning: With a controlling fire captain, and a wild ex-rescue diver with a chip on her shoulder, the sparks are molten when these opposites attract.