Blind Heat

Captain Matt Donnelly has built his life on discipline, order, and never looking too long at the things he can’t have. After a warehouse fire leaves him temporarily blind, the department assigns the one man he’s spent years pretending not to want as his full-time recovery partner.

Lieutenant Alex Rivera is out, confident, and impossible to ignore—especially when Matt can no longer rely on sight to keep his distance. With his eyes bandaged and his world reduced to sound, scent, and touch, Matt is forced to feel every careful hand on his skin, every low command guiding him through the dark, and every unwanted spark that ignites when Alex is near.

What starts as necessary care quickly becomes something far more dangerous. The sponge baths. The midnight confessions. The way Matt’s body betrays him the second Alex’s hands are on him. Matt has spent his entire life being the steady one—the father, the captain, the straight man with a son who needs him whole. But in the darkness, those lines are burning away.

With an internal affairs probe circling, his son’s custody hanging in the balance, and the entire firehouse watching, Matt has to decide if he’s willing to risk everything he’s built for the man who refuses to let him hide anymore.

Some fires you run into.

Others you surrender to.