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Fire at the Gallery: A Best Friend's Brother, He-Falls-First Small-Town Romance
Paperback
Series: Cedar Bloom, Book 2
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Publisher: Independently Published
Pages: 464
Weight: 1.36
Height: 0.94 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
She came back to decide whether Cedar Bloom could survive.
He has spent years pretending he never wanted her to stay.
Small-business lender Kimberly Johnson expects facts, figures, and a clean professional review when she is sent back to Cedar Bloom after an electrical fire damages The Almost Gallery.
Instead, she finds a festival six weeks from opening, a community tied together by dangerous financial agreements, and Philip Ogunleye standing on the opposite side of the table.
Philip is her best friend's older brother, the teacher who carried a student out of the smoke, and the man who once said her name at a railway station but never finished the sentence that might have changed everything.
Now his students' exhibition, his aunt's business, his sister's gallery, and the future of Cedar Works all depend on Kimberly's decision.
Forced to share an office and rebuild the festival together, their old attraction becomes impossible to ignore. But every kiss creates a professional conflict, every financial discovery threatens another Cedar Bloom business, and Kimberly's determination to expose the truth could cost her the career she spent fourteen years building.
Philip has spent too long believing love means waiting without asking.
Kimberly has spent too long believing safety means needing no one.
To save Cedar Bloom and build a future together, they must stop making choices for each other and become brave enough to choose love where everyone can see it.
Fire at the Gallery is a high-heat, best friend's brother small-town romance featuring years of secret pining, he-falls-first devotion, forced proximity, a competent lender heroine, a protective teacher hero, community stakes, found family, and a complete happily ever after.
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