All The Quiet Places: A Small-Town Romantic Suspense: 2

She keeps two sets of books. He counts every exit. Neither of them saw the fire coming - except they both did.Josie Marsh pours a fair drink, runs the tightest bar on the Georgia coast, and has spent three years being nobody in particular - on purpose. Because Josie Marsh isn't her real name, and the last time she told the truth for a living, it nearly erased her.Lieutenant Wade Rye is Saltwick's favorite noise: the firefighter with a joke for every occasion and a system nobody's supposed to notice - the bill always comes to him. He's spent two years being funny so no one looks closer, and three years bringing his paperwork to the one bartender who never asks.Then a barn burns backwards. Then the insurance letters start arriving, all in the same elegant hand. And the county's two best pattern-readers realize somebody has built a machine whose only purpose is a season of fires in Saltwick, Georgia - and switched it on.Working the case means working together. Working together means the locked doors start opening: his panic, her past, a term sheet signed with the lamps on - no protecting me without a vote. But when the clock collapses to ten hours and she's unreachable on the water, Wade makes the one choice built to break them. Because the most dangerous fire in Saltwick isn't the one in the walls.It's the difference between a lie built to take something - and a lie built to carry it.All the Quiet Places is Book Two of the Saltwick series: a small-town romance with real heat, real stakes, a county that bets on everything, and a happily-ever-after signed out loud. Reads as a standalone.