Fire up my Heart by Barbra Campbell

I’m done with corporate rules and arrogance, which is why I’m hiding away in a small mountain town after a disastrous hot mic incident that ruined my career.
The simple life is supposed to give me a chance to lick my wounds.
But as they say…the simple life ain’t so simple.
One of the first coworkers I encounter is a grumbly volunteer firefighter everyone tells me to stay away from. This wouldn’t be a problem if my heart didn’t get swoony at the sight of him. It also wouldn’t be a problem if I planned on staying in town long enough to break through the walls he’d built around his heart.
He’s been burned, and I can’t shake the feeling that instead everyone keeping their distance, he needs compassion, which is the exact wrong thing to come from someone passing through.
But when he embarrasses himself to protect me, revealing a glimmer of hope, I have to decide if I’m going to encourage him to let more light into his darkened heart, or if I should keep my distance so we both don’t end up hurt.