Single Dad To The Rescue

To Stacey—a best friend who quickly became family. You’re the sister I got to choose myself.

Special thanks to my editor, Kathryn Lye, for pushing me to become a better writer. I’m grateful. To Melinda and Anna for your continuous support. To my husband and daughters for your plot-twist suggestions that always make me laugh and disrupt my stress.

Contents

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About the Author (#ue60a8952-f2ad-52a1-a6ca-658f7d905285)

Booklist (#u701b8a0f-f610-5e5e-8e03-c5c814115181)

Title Page (#u32f04dc7-d820-5b7f-b455-2b11503c8be9)

Copyright (#ud94b1458-c39c-5db7-be8c-094ce7ded089)

Note to Readers

Introduction (#uf6408e4f-eb1e-5c6a-ba5f-8ea96e183930)

Dear Reader (#u86c81d22-75c6-5c1d-a23a-42ee69980289)

Dedication (#u3dae9561-989b-5926-a3f3-4ae512602a1b)

CHAPTER ONE (#u440de93e-fb37-5947-8f83-d2b072fd1396)

CHAPTER TWO (#ufa5544bf-c1d3-5b35-b7e5-792673e4f307)

CHAPTER THREE (#ub9142c1b-2303-5d32-b899-0226266589be)

CHAPTER FOUR (#ua5544a9d-e17f-5b65-bfd3-ca2ec29c654a)

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About the Publisher (#litres_trial_promo)

CHAPTER ONE (#u317858f7-1d8d-5407-b1f1-3c4c43bd59f4)

“CAN I OFFER you a ride?” A man’s deep voice broke through Brooke Ellis’s stupor.

Brooke squeezed Luna’s dog leash and tried to squeeze a sense of composure through herself.

Why were simple questions the hardest?

Maybe they’d always been hard and that was why Brooke had chosen to live alone in the mountains of Northern California for the past five years.

Until two days ago.

Exactly fifty-two hours earlier, a wildfire had ripped through the forest, forced Brooke and her neighbors to evacuate and destroyed lives.