First published 2026
Lennon has rules. Don't commit crimes with company. Don't start fights you can't finish. Never hustle someone who hustles for a living. She broke all of them the night she left with the cowboy, and she told herself it meant nothing. She was good at walking away. Then she turned up at his ranch, and suddenly nothing was simple anymore. Carson James spotted the bruised knuckles from across the bar and knew she was trouble. He was right. What he did not count on was her showing up on his land and dragging that trouble straight to his door. He also did not count on how hard it would be to stay angry at someone he cannot stop thinking about. Lennon is a chef who runs her own kitchen and her own life, and Carson is a cowboy who does the same on the ranch. Both of them are stubborn, both of them are guarded, and neither one wants to admit that one night turned into something they cannot shake. The final book in the Griffith Brothers series, Fire Line asks who breaks first and who gets burned.
Genres: fiction, romance, adult, adult-fiction, contemporary-romance
Vibes: emotional, gritty, intimate, slow-burn, tension-filled
Tropes: enemies-to-lovers, forced-proximity, guarded-characters, second-chance-romance
Setting: ranch, bar, kitchen
368 pages · Paperback · Berkley
Content warnings: violence