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Honeyfires
She wiped the starlight from my eyes.
Petra Alves has survived things most people only see in nightmares. Two combat deployments. A field of wildfire. The weight of soldiers she couldn't save. She came back to San Jacinto, Arizona carrying all of it locked up inside her, and she learned to live there. Quietly. Alone. Running toward burning things because it was the only way she knew how to feel useful.
She wasn't expecting Vera Montgomery.
Golden-haired, blue-eyed, and dangerously optimistic, her new neighbor is everything Petra isn't. Soft where she's scarred. Warm where she's guarded. At home in a world made of books and vintage dresses and Jane Austen quotes. Vera is the kind of woman you look at once and never quite recover from. Petra knows this the moment she sees her standing in their hallway in a flower-print pink dress, guessing her name through a smile that makes the whole world tilt sideways.
What follows is slow, and then all at once. Coffee and first dates and a kiss in a library that neither of them saw coming. A love that builds itself quietly in the space between two very different lives, until everything that matters most gets tested by fire.
Because Petra is a helitack forewoman. She rappels from helicopters into active burns. She makes impossible calls with seconds to spare. And when a career-threatening wildfire forces her to choose between following orders and bringing her crew home alive, she makes the only choice she can live with-and loses almost everything else.
Honeyfires is the story of what it costs to be brave, and what it means to finally let someone love you for it. It's sharp edges and soft hands. Nightmares and lavender baths. A woman who spent years surviving, finally learning how to stay.
Explicit content. Guaranteed HEA. For readers who want their romance to wreck them a little before it heals them completely.
Petra Alves has survived things most people only see in nightmares. Two combat deployments. A field of wildfire. The weight of soldiers she couldn't save. She came back to San Jacinto, Arizona carrying all of it locked up inside her, and she learned to live there. Quietly. Alone. Running toward burning things because it was the only way she knew how to feel useful.
She wasn't expecting Vera Montgomery.
Golden-haired, blue-eyed, and dangerously optimistic, her new neighbor is everything Petra isn't. Soft where she's scarred. Warm where she's guarded. At home in a world made of books and vintage dresses and Jane Austen quotes. Vera is the kind of woman you look at once and never quite recover from. Petra knows this the moment she sees her standing in their hallway in a flower-print pink dress, guessing her name through a smile that makes the whole world tilt sideways.
What follows is slow, and then all at once. Coffee and first dates and a kiss in a library that neither of them saw coming. A love that builds itself quietly in the space between two very different lives, until everything that matters most gets tested by fire.
Because Petra is a helitack forewoman. She rappels from helicopters into active burns. She makes impossible calls with seconds to spare. And when a career-threatening wildfire forces her to choose between following orders and bringing her crew home alive, she makes the only choice she can live with-and loses almost everything else.
Honeyfires is the story of what it costs to be brave, and what it means to finally let someone love you for it. It's sharp edges and soft hands. Nightmares and lavender baths. A woman who spent years surviving, finally learning how to stay.
Explicit content. Guaranteed HEA. For readers who want their romance to wreck them a little before it heals them completely.
294 pages, Paperback
Published August 22, 2026
About the author
Nora Fares
12 books63 followersNora Fares lives in Southern California with her family and her cat, Caspian, who insists he’s the real writer. She splits her time between gaming and writing heartbreaking stories in very pretty prose, where characters have to crawl through emotional glass for their happy endings. A proud member of the LGBT+ community, she’s now focused on giving those hard‑won happy endings to the gays—because someone has to.
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September 27, 2026
This was one of my highly anticipated releases and it was a good story. I definitely felt enamored with Petra and author did an amazing job portraying mental health struggles after serving 2 Afghanistan tours and not being able to fit back into life. After she became a fire fighter, she found that the job helped to fulfill her sense of purpose.
She meets Vera in a hallway and you could immediately tell who and what Vera is lol She's quirky, spunky, and if I'm being honest she came off a little cocky that was sort of annoying to me. It's onw thing to have confidence but Vera was just laying it on too thick at times. It got better towards the end.
Their development was organic and totally lesbian lol it happened right out the gate so it wasn't a slow burn romantic development but it was ok because we got alot to focus on Petra and her career and the after effects of a last minute decision she made out on the field, but dont worry, it was a happy ending.
The spice was good from Petra's performance lol I felt like Vera was more of a pillow princess and thats not jam.
The only complaint I have is that I felt there was alot of redundant context, it was so repetitive. Sometimes phrases and sentences and context were repeated word for word. The chapters were also too long which isn't a super big deal but you just didnt have those natural breaks. Over all it was a good book
She meets Vera in a hallway and you could immediately tell who and what Vera is lol She's quirky, spunky, and if I'm being honest she came off a little cocky that was sort of annoying to me. It's onw thing to have confidence but Vera was just laying it on too thick at times. It got better towards the end.
Their development was organic and totally lesbian lol it happened right out the gate so it wasn't a slow burn romantic development but it was ok because we got alot to focus on Petra and her career and the after effects of a last minute decision she made out on the field, but dont worry, it was a happy ending.
The spice was good from Petra's performance lol I felt like Vera was more of a pillow princess and thats not jam.
The only complaint I have is that I felt there was alot of redundant context, it was so repetitive. Sometimes phrases and sentences and context were repeated word for word. The chapters were also too long which isn't a super big deal but you just didnt have those natural breaks. Over all it was a good book
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