Three Cross brothers. Three secrets too long kept. And a firehouse where everything that matters eventually burns into the open.
Engine Company 47 is home base for the Cross family—and the backdrop for three love stories built on the things people hide. A physical therapist who knows she should tell him everything and can’t. A paramedic who left Chicago without a word and came back with a three-year-old secret. An ATF investigator and the brother she never stopped loving, targeted by an arsonist who knows exactly what they mean to each other.
Each book is a second chance. Each one costs more than the last. And in all three, the hardest thing isn’t the fire—it’s choosing to stop hiding from it.
Book One
THE LAST THING HE FORGOT
Tessa & Declan
He doesn’t remember her. She can’t forget him. And the cost of her silence is coming due.
Physical therapist Tessa Park has been assigned to rehabilitate Lieutenant Declan Cross after a traumatic brain injury leaves him with retrograde amnesia. There’s one problem: Declan doesn’t remember the six months they spent falling in love in secret—hidden from his brother Owen, hidden from her employer, hidden from everyone.
Tessa tells herself she’s staying to protect his recovery. That keeping the secret is the ethical choice. That her hands can remain professional even when his body remembers what his mind has lost. She is wrong on every count.
As Declan’s memories return fragment by fragment, Tessa must choose between the career she’s built, the brother who trusted her, and the man who fell for her once—and might be falling again.
Alternating First Person (Tessa & Declan) • HEA
Book Two
WHAT FIRE CAN’T BURN
Maya & Owen
She kept his daughter secret for three years. She should have known fire always finds the fuel.
Paramedic Maya Reeves left Chicago—and Owen Cross—without explanation. She didn’t tell him she was carrying his child. She told herself it was protection. She told herself so many things in three years of telling herself stories. Now she’s back on a temporary assignment at Engine Company 47, and Owen is standing in the equipment bay looking like every reason she should have stayed gone.
Then he finds out about Lily—the green eyes that match his exactly, the daughter who has been alive for three years in a world he had no idea she inhabited. What follows is not forgiveness. It’s legal filings, custody negotiations, family dinners that feel like battlefields, and the slow, excruciating work of two people learning to be parents when they can barely stand to be in the same room.
Earned redemption or easy apology. The weight of stolen time. Family as a daily choice—whether either of them is ready to make it.
Alternating First Person (Maya & Owen) • HEA
Book Three — Series Finale
WHERE SMOKE SETTLES
Zoe & Finn
The arsonist has been watching them. He knows what they mean to each other. He plans to use it.
ATF fire investigator Zoe Brennan returns to Chicago to lead an arson investigation targeting Engine Company 47—and straight back into the orbit of Finn Cross, the man she never quite managed to stop loving. The fires are deliberate. The targets are personal. And terminated CFD firefighter Graham Foster has been documenting their reunion from the start.
He has photos. He has access. And he has a very specific plan to use Zoe and Finn’s rekindled love as leverage to burn everything they care about to the ground. As the arsons escalate from the firehouse to the Cross family home, Zoe and Finn must navigate a case that keeps closing in on the people they love most.
Between professional survival and personal safety. Between the walls that kept them apart and the love that has always burned straight through them.
Alternating First Person (Zoe & Finn) • Full Series HEA
Series Tropes
Book 1 — The Last Thing He Forgot
Book 2 — What Fire Can’t Burn
Book 3 — Where Smoke Settles
Throughout All Three Books
Series Details
Series: The Cross Brothers Series — 3 Books
Book 1: The Last Thing He Forgot — Tessa & Declan — HEA
Book 2: What Fire Can’t Burn — Maya & Owen — HEA
Book 3: Where Smoke Settles — Zoe & Finn — Full Series HEA
Genre: Contemporary Romance / Romantic Suspense
Heat Level: High-Heat, Open-Door (explicit intimate scenes)
POV: Alternating First Person — all three books
Setting: Chicago — Engine Company 47
Format: Interconnected standalones — each follows a different Cross brother
Ending: HEA in every book; full ensemble resolution in Book 3
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