He left a letter instead of having a conversation. She spent fifteen years deciding that was acceptable. Private investigator Freddie Flynn has built her career, her independence, her carefully managed distance from God, on the foundation of that decision. Then Jason Bryant walks through the door as her new vice president, and the foundation turns out to be less stable than advertised. Jason is her ex-fiancé. The man who left a letter and then disappeared to the mission field—taking her faith and her future with him. She has been professionally avoiding him for seven years. Now he is her boss, her assigned partner, and, somewhere on the Cornish coast, possibly the only honest person left in the building. In the cliffside village of Trelawney, a missing man's cryptic journal, a smuggling ring buried in an abandoned mine, and fifteen years of unfinished truth have a way of refusing to wait. The professional distance Freddie has so carefully maintained is running out of road. So, as it turns out, is her certainty that God has nothing left to say to her. After the Fire is a slow-burn second-chance romance with genuine suspense and a faith-restoration arc that yearns to be witnessed. For readers who are tired of easy reconciliations, whether with people or with God. Guaranteed HEA. Clean romance. Faith-forward content.