A Demon for Fourth of July

A small-town Independence Day paranormal romcom with real heart.

Season's Summonings Book 5

Frankie Ruiz became a fire marshal because fire took everything from her once, and she has spent her whole life since making sure it never takes anything again — every permit airtight, every spark accounted for, every show safe and sane. She is the most careful person in a hundred miles, and she has made carefulness her whole cold, contained, fireproofed life.

So when her small town's make-or-break Fourth of July festival lands in her lap and a pyrotechnics test goes catastrophically wrong six days out, Frankie reads a scorched old card out of the smoke and summons the last thing on earth she wants: a fire demon.

Pyravin — Cole — is a two-thousand-year-old artisan of the Pyre Order, the infernal showmen who lit the sky over coronations and armies and a hundred thousand summer nights. He is everything Frankie has built her life to prevent: bright, uncontainable, dazzling, and gone the instant the show ends, because nobody keeps a firework. He can make her festival flawless. He cannot grant the wish underneath it — because the show that has to go off without a hitch isn't the one on the field. It's the white-knuckled, fireproofed life she's been running for twenty years, and the only way it resolves is if she stops extinguishing everything and lets something bright and unguaranteed finally burn.

The binding dissolves when the last firework of the Fourth goes dark — and every version of a flawless night ends with Cole burning out on schedule. A woman terrified of the beautiful and temporary, and a creature who IS the beautiful and temporary, learning the same impossible lesson from opposite sides: that a life with no fire in it was never safe, only cold — and that the bravest thing you can do is love the thing that could burn out, and bring it home anyway.

A small-town Independence Day paranormal romcom with real heart. Virgin River Americana meets a slow-burn (literally) fire-demon romance — for readers who want the found family, the everybody-gathers-toward-the-light, and a firework who finally gets brought inside.

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Chapter One

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