I lost her once.
I can't lose her again.
I fight wildfires. It's dirty, sweaty, and dangerous, but there's nothing else like it. There's no adrenaline boost like a hundred-foot wall of flame. There's no victory better than saving a town.
Particularly when the town you save is your ex-girlfriend's.
Clementine's that ex. The one I haven't seen in eight years. The one I thought I was going to marry.
We were over a long time ago, and

I told a judge I was engaged to my best friend.
Now we're faking it.
How hard can it be?
My life has room for exactly two women: my daughter Rusty and my best friend Charlotte — known to everyone as Charlie.
One is a feisty, tomboyish firecracker. The other is my seven-year-old. I can't imagine life without either.
So when my ex springs a custody hearing on me, I find myself telling the judge that I'm engaged

I don't love him. I don't even like him.

I just want him.

Eli Loveless was my nemesis from the first day of kindergarten until we graduated high school. Everything I did, he had to do better - and vice versa. The day he left town was the best day of my life.

Ten years later, the day he came back was the worst.

Now he's my co-worker.

Grown-up Eli Loveless

Elizabeth McGee never thought she'd set foot in Loveless, Texas, again. But after the reading of her father's will, Elizabeth learns she's inherited her grandmother's house and all of the personal contents. If that wasn't enough to knock her off her feet, she soon discovers that JD Carmichael, her lost love from high school, is the contractor who has been hired to finish renovating the house. JD once had the world by the tail. But after a premature