Smoke Signals

Name: Smoke Signals
Author: Cassie Lein

by Cassie Lein

Genre: Romance New Adult LGBTQ+ M-M Romance

97 pages

One year ago, Hartley Quinn was finishing massage school.
Now he’s someone’s whole world.

Alaska is brilliant, but hasn’t spoken a single word since the day her father — a firefighter — didn’t come home. Hartley doesn’t know if he’s doing any of this right. He only knows he’d burn down the city for her. So when he finally admits he can’t do it alone, he swallows his pride and asks for help.
He does not expect Stellan Brooks.

Stellan was born to run toward smoke. Then an injury nearly took everything, and Ladder 99 put him on medical leave with no return date. Tutoring was supposed to be a way to fill the hours.
But there’s a little girl who lights up when he says her name and a man who has no idea how magnetic he is.

Hartley only wanted a tutor.
He didn’t want the stolen glances.
He didn’t want chemistry that hits harder every single week.
He definitely didn’t want to fall for a fireman — he’s already lost too much to that world.

Every visit, Stellan stays a little longer. Every week, Hartley falls a little harder.
Then the department calls Stellan back.

Smoke Signals is a full-length, standalone slow-burn MM romance with one grieving guardian, one benched firefighter, one little girl who changes everything, and a guaranteed HEA. No cliffhanger. No cheating. Just the long, slow burn — and it’s worth every page.

Tropes: slow burn · MM romance · bi awakening · single guardian · firefighter hero · hurt/comfort · tutor romance · found family · grief & healing · he falls first · guaranteed HEA

Contains a content list at the front of the book. 18+.

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