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

David pushed into his apartment and held up the envelope. “It was in the backseat.”


Taylor glanced over his shoulder, David’s landline against his ear. He pressed a finger to his lips before turning his back to him again. “I just thought you should know. I can’t tell you how sorry I am.”


“Who was that?” David asked the moment Taylor placed the phone back on the cradle. He couldn’t remember the last time he’d heard Taylor apologize for anything.


“I had to make a quick call. Work shit.” Taylor dropped back down into the chair he’d been sitting in when David had gone in search of Oliver’s submission. “You really don’t want to know.”


“So, what do you have?” Taylor held out his hand and David handed him the large envelope. “Oh, don’t tell me. I bet I can guess.”


He touched the envelope to his forehead like he was the Great Kriswell.


Chapter 18