Messy Match by Ellen Brooks

Competent firefighter with a sinful smile? Sign me up. My brother’s overprotective best friend with a hero complex? Hard pass.

Ever since that disastrous New Year’s Eve when my brother’s best friend assumed I needed rescuing, I’ve mastered the art of trading barbs with Ladder 24’s sexiest first responder.

But now, thanks to my brother’s destination wedding at a luxurious ski lodge in Vermont, we’re stuck having to play nice together. Good thing I’m an actress and won’t have an issue pretending the devilish thorn in my side doesn’t get under my skin.

Until the fit of his perfectly tailored suit and smoldering gaze start melting my defenses faster than a heart shaped ice sculpture under the heat of a blazing mid-day sun.

Between champagne-fueled wedding events and that treacherous yet tempting connecting door between our rooms, our arguing starts to feel a lot like foreplay.

But giving in means admitting I might have been wrong about him all along. And the spark that’s been burning between us since that first night? It could either destroy everything—or be exactly the rescue I never knew I needed.