The Trouble with a Kiss: A friends to lovers firefighter love at first sight slow burn romcom

Heatherly Bell

Mar 2022 · Sunset Kiss Book 2 · Heatherly Bell Books

About this eBook

She’s a runaway bride with a secret…

He’s an off-duty firefighter thrown into the path of a rescue…

And these two soulmates have a shared history neither one remembers.

Welcome back to Miracle Bay and the legend of the sunset kiss: kiss someone at sunset anywhere in Miracle Bay and you might find your true love.

When Marco Reyes happens upon a woman dangling from a first-floor balcony, the rescue leads him down a path he’d never expected. Phoebe Carrington couldn’t go through with a marriage to her billionaire father’s friend, so she left the man thirty years her senior at the altar. Now, everyone in San Francisco is looking for her.

But she knows they’ll never find her in Miracle Bay…

Welcome to a firefighter romance including a runaway bride, a matchmaking legend, Silicon Valley royalty, and plenty of romcom laugh out loud moments. Guaranteed HEA!

Ratings and reviews

I've read most, if not all, of Heatherly Bell's books. This one has a magical touch to it that had me suspending belief of real life and enjoying a magical romance between an heiress and a firefighter. Phoebe was sweet and innocent learning to choose self over family demands. Marco had a dark cloud following him and had to learn that love was freeing. This is a magical, slow burn, small town, firefighter romance. All tropes I enjoy. I received a free copy of this book via Booksprout and am voluntarily leaving a review.

It wasn’t like Phoebe had her heart broken. She was running away from an arranged marriage to a much older man who was trying to control her when she met Marco. She saw that shimmer about him like the legend. But he goes for women who are looking for a rebound guy. It felt like he used them for sex and when they realize he’s not a forever kind of guy they moved on. He tries to fight his attraction to Phoebe and remain friends, but she is staying with him and it’s not long before they fall into bed together. For someone who had lived such a sheltered life like Phoebe she has a new job fairly quickly she enjoys and the courage to stand up for herself. If only Marco would get his head out of his butt before he loses her.

Phoebe and Marco’s story is sweet and endearing. Marco, a firefighter, meets and rescues Phoebe as she runs away from her wedding. She had thought she could be the dutiful daughter and marry a man thirty years older, but Phoebe just couldn’t go through with it. She believes in love and romance, just like her late mother did, and she didn’t see love in her future with the fiancé she left at the altar. Marco is a true ladies man, not looking for commitment, content to be the rebound guy and not the “one” for any of the women he dates. But right from the moment Phoebe lands on him during her escape from her wedding, something is different. He feels ultra aware of everything about her….her scent, her beauty and her voice. He keeps telling himself that he is just doing a good deed, that she just needs a little help and then he is free to go about his business. Yet, when he has the chance to let her go to be on her way back home or to go anywhere else, he finds he can’t let her go. Phoebe knows that there is a connection, a soul-deep one, between her and her handsome rescuer. Her heart tells her he could be the “one” for her, but Marco seems unaffected, though in reality he is just very good at hiding his reactions and feelings. Learning of their first meeting as kids, one neither he or Phoebe remembers, leads to Marco thinking that there may be some truth to the Kiss at Sunset legend. Could they really be fated lovers? What happens next is for you to discover when you read this charming book. I received a free copy of this book via Booksprout and am voluntarily leaving a review.

About the author

Bestselling author Heatherly Bell was born in Tuscaloosa, Alabama but lost her accent by the time she was two. Her grandmother, Mima, kept both the accent and spirit of the southern woman alive for decades. After leaving Alabama, Heatherly lived with her family in Puerto Rico and Maryland before being transplanted kicking and screaming to the California Bay Area. She now loves it here, she swears. Except the traffic