Red Flag Warning: She predicted the fire. didn't predict him

She predicted the fire. She didn't predict him. Rowan Deacon sees the pattern before anyone else: Halloran Peak is about to turn. As a federal fire behavior analyst, she trusts terrain, wind, and fuel-especially when the chain of command prefers a safer answer. Beckett Vance, superintendent of a twenty-person hotshot crew, has spent years trusting only what he can verify. Rowan's numbers are the first thing he believes without hesitation. On the fireline, professional respect becomes late-night model reviews, private messages, and a connection neither of them can afford to name. Beckett has a crew-and a teenage girl who depends on him-waiting for him to come home. Rowan has already learned what happens when being right is treated as a communication problem. Fourteen months later, they sit in separate rooms while a federal inquiry reconstructs every choice made before the entrapment event. The same messages that may prove Rowan warned them in time could make her collaboration with Beckett look like collusion. Beneath the official record waits a contractor connection capable of turning a near-miss into something far more deliberate. Told across two timelines, Red Flag Warning is a steamy, slow-burn romantic suspense about competence, trust, institutional failure, and the dangerous intimacy of being believed. For readers who enjoy: - fierce, highly competent heroines - protective single fathers - workplace romance under pressure - wildfire danger and investigative suspense - open-door heat and an earned happily-ever-after