A Hotshot Christmas: Firehawks Lookouts, #5
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-a Firehawks Hotshot romance story-
Heavy equipment driver Sheila Williams got blown up one too many times. The Army kicked her loose for that idiot reason. How the hell she ended up in a tourist town for the holidays makes even less sense.
Hotshot Randall Jones fights wildfires for a living. The adrenaline fits him like a fire in the forest.
They both feel the heat in a Hotshot Christmas.
M. L. Buchman
USA Today and Amazon #1 Bestseller M. L. "Matt" Buchman has 70+ action-adventure thriller and military romance novels, 100 short stories, and lotsa audiobooks. PW says: “Tom Clancy fans open to a strong female lead will clamor for more.” Booklist declared: “3X Top 10 of the Year.” A project manager with a geophysics degree, he’s designed and built houses, flown and jumped out of planes, solo-sailed a 50’ sailboat, and bicycled solo around the world…and he quilts.
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A Hotshot Christmas - M. L. Buchman
A Hotshot Christmas
M. L. Buchman
Buchman Bookworks, Inc.
Contents
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Chapter 6
Chapter 7
Chapter 8
Chapter 9
Chapter 10
Chapter 11
Chapter 12
Chapter 13
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1
Sheila inspected the heavy dark beams and white plaster of the restaurant. A hostess—in a bad Bavarian costume of ruffled sleeves, low-cut above blousy, cotton-cupped breasts—smiled at her as she sashayed across the hardwood floor in incongruous heels.
Table for one?
Just one notch too perky for her to swallow.
No, thanks. Just looking in.
Sheila turned abruptly and nearly trampled a couple and their kids coming in the door. Civilians! Too close! She kept the epithet to herself and stepped around them and back out into the crisp darkness.
To her left was the snow sprinkled faux-Bavarian town of Leavenworth, Washington, so perfect it was like a goddamn life-sized snow globe. To her right was a McDonald’s with a wood and plaster Germanic facade. She’d promised herself that she’d do better than McD’s for a Thanksgiving Day dinner, but crowds were kind of a problem for her and the town was packed.
Saddle up, girl.
She didn’t even bother raising her camo jacket’s collar as she turned to tromp through the snow—even the damned falling snow was picturesque—and into the heart of the town. Somewhere there had to be a bar with a burger, a brew, and a minimum of Bavarian.
She’d been driving to…well, nowhere. She’d been driving away from the family Thanksgiving in Seattle. Five hours through packed city roads and over slick mountain ones.
Not a soul understood what it meant that she was out of the Army. No one got that a TBI diagnosis didn’t mean she was nuts. Traumatic Brain Injury meant that she’d been blown up one too many times for the Army to trust her at the wheel of her big transport truck. Didn’t meant she was crazy. Please let it not mean she was crazy.
Which totally explained why she was in a resort town, that looked about as inauthentic as most of the ones in the real Bavaria did, looking for a quiet place to get drunk on Thanksgiving night.
A polka band playing out on the town’s square made her wonder how the tuba player’s lips didn’t freeze to his mouthpiece. Children skidded around despite all the salt and sand laid down on the sidewalks. One ran into her legs hard enough to fall back on its butt.
She stopped, knelt down, and picked up the kid to put it back on its feet. See, acting perfectly normal. Helping out.
It took one look at her, burst out crying, and raced away.
Sheila closed her eyes for a moment…before standing and continuing through town. She crossed the street to get clear of the square.
Bavarian Bistro. Not a chance.
Soup Cellar. O Tannenbaum playing on the juke because Thanksgiving was over in another half dozen hours. She didn’t even make it halfway down the stairs.
She closed her eyes to get past the garish Christmas store and let the tourists bounce off her until she was clear.
King Ludwig’s. The Mad King. Not a freaking chance.
She jostled and was nudged along until she fell out the other end of the town. Four blocks. She’d survived four blocks. Sometimes the victories are small. She hated when the psychs were right, especially when it felt more like defeat.
At the far end of the tourist strip, the town collapsed back into small American town. Dimly lit, cold. She leaned against the concrete wall of a closed warehouse and did what she could to catch her breath.
Been following you,
a deep male voice.
She really didn’t need this shit right now. She rested her hand on her sidearm, but the Glock 19 wasn’t