Ash DeHan has come home to North Carolina’s Smoky Mountains after six years in the army expecting to work for a covert operation called Firebrand. Lainey Simpson has just returned to the small resort town after graduating from college hoping to settle down. They have little in common except they attended the same high school. When they meet unexpectedly on a mountain trail, Ash doesn’t remember Lainey who was two years behind him in school, but he finds himself intrigued now. As the two fall in love, they find their hopes for the future will force them to travel different paths. But when they go their separate ways, they find the flame of first love is not so easily extinguished.
I was expecting to read a Christian Romantic Suspense and was disappointed that this novella didn't really fit that genre. It is more like a clean-read Contemporary Romance with a suspense ending. This is not a stand alone story but rather a prequel lead-in to the first book in the Firebrand Series.