Oliver Stoll’s life has gone up in smoke. Literally. Escaping an apartment fire, he’s made it out with little more than the clothes on his back and his best friend and downstairs neighbor, Mia. With few other options, he agrees to stay with David Elliston, Mia’s older brother. David was Oliver’s first crush, first kiss, first everything. That is, until the day they broke up five years before. It hadn’t been pretty.<br><br>David Elliston is back in town. Offered the chance to oversee the Kellmen Group’s newest magazine acquisition, he isn’t going to let a years old heartbreak stop him. But being thrown together with Oliver is harder than expected. And the flicker of hope he’s long tried to bury becomes even more difficult to contain.<br><br>Ex-lovers, best friends, and angry parents don’t make the best backdrop for rekindling a romance. But it’s the lies from the past that might just extinguish any chance they have of starting over.

Big Flames and Small

He stretched out wide, taking up as much of the bed real-estate as he could, and sighed his contentment.


When they had gotten in at close to 4:30 in the morning, David had offered Oliver the shower and an armload of clothes, and Oliver had accepted gratefully.


It was another of the little details he hadn’t considered in his exhaustion. Mr. Ellis was shorter than he was, much shorter, and Oliver would have been forced to stay in his smoky clothing, or hangout in a towel as he ran what he had on through Mia’s parents’ washer and dryer.


When he’d returned after a cleaning up, he found David making up his guest room with fresh sheets and was told his clothes were in the washer.


“I’ve got Mia set up down the hall on the other side of the kitchen, near mine.” David smiled. “That way you’ve more privacy.”


Chapter 5