Despite the center’s no PDA rule, an instant attraction simmers between an expert search and rescue instructor and a broody firefighter during summer training.
Axel Hammerstone is lauded as a hometown hero when he returns from an overseas deployment with a Purple Heart and silver star. Nobody sees the inner scars of war he’s still grappling with. As a tribute to the battle buddies who never made it home, he’s determined to devote the rest of his career to search and rescue operations.
