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

Oliver snorted. “Easier said than done.” He’d finished his first year at the community college and was more than two weeks in to the summer semester with a mapped-out class plan that would allow him to transfer to the university at the end of spring.


“I know.” David pressed a kiss to Oliver’s palm. “I’ll get settled in. And you could transfer to a school down there.”


“Yeah.” It was a nice thought, the dream of them living together. Really living together. Oliver smiled. “When do they want you to start?”


“Shit.” Three weeks. “Such short notice. How will you find a place that fast? Where do you even begin?”


“Taylor?” Oliver felt his stomach drop. “What’s Taylor have to do with any of this?”


Chapter 15