ARC Book Review - Chasing Smoke (The Mercer Family #2) by Piper Rayne
Book Rating: Book Tropes: best friend's widow, forbidden romance, grief & healing, love after loss, friends to lovers, forbidden, small town, firefighter mmc This is book #2 in the series. You can read the series as a standalone, as they explain who is who. Collins is a widow of 18 months, her husband Caleb died while on duty with the fire department. She's been stuck in this routine, get up, go to work, go home. She doesn't do anything for herself. She keeps to herself now. There is no light in her life any more. She has forgotten how to live since she lost Caleb. Ansel, was Caleb best friend since they were in mid school. They grew up together, and were also serving together at the fire station. Ansel was with him when they went into the house that killed Caleb. Ansel knows Collins is just a shell of her former self. She isn't living. Ansel talks with Collins about going out and doing things together. At first Collins isn't sure about ...