Wombats and Wildfires

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It’s usually bad form to profit from someone else’s misfortune, unless your victim is a six-foot-something, smoking-hot fireman with a sopping-wet T-shirt. In those circumstances, all bets are off.

Sunshiny Melody is one more rejection away from giving up on her photography dreams. All she needs is a paying job. Instead, she gets a wombat sanctuary to run. Blue Gum Valley couldn’t be further from the bright lights of Melbourne, but with her career on “do not resuscitate”, she has little choice but to put her dreams on hold.

Grumpy firefighter Ethan Barnes doesn’t have time for romance. The last time he tried, heartbreak put him firmly off dating. Then a desperate woman contacts the station needing her dog rescued. Of course, Ethan steps up. What he isn’t expecting? His emergency caller to be so beautiful… or so damn infuriating.

Ethan thinks he’ll never see her again, but when Melody posts a picture of him in the river, it sparks a thirst-trap storm neither of them saw coming.