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

And now he lay in bed, eyes wide. He should write, he knew that. Another few hours and he’d be close to finishing his freelance piece, but it wasn’t due for more than two weeks and he’d be better off waiting until he could focus a little more.


He heard noise in the hall, the sound of something rattling against the wood floors, and he knew the kittens were outside his door.


The office. Oliver had seen a bookshelf in the office. He could borrow something. At least then he could distract his mind enough to relax, and maybe eventually get some sleep.


He hopped up, flipping on the bedside lamp. He stepped into the sweats from that morning and pulled a new T-shirt from his drawer.


The kittens were just outside, and they scurried away as soon as they saw him.


Chapter 13