BRIAR

NEXT in the Ellery Family Saga

Briar: Home Fires Burning – Draft description

Ten years ago, during a family conflict, Park Service Special Agent Rebecca “Becca” Tait crossed paths with the Ellerys, and the attraction between her and Briar Ellery was like fire and ice—sharp, volatile, and impossible to ignore. Briar, a documentary filmmaker and the third Ellery sibling, built his career pointing a camera at danger in war zones and wilderness, clinging to artistic detachment even as Becca’s competence under pressure and guarded vulnerability made staying objective the hardest assignment of his life.

Now, a string of suspicious fires is tearing through protected wilderness, and Becca knows this isn’t a normal fire season—it’s targeted destruction. As a federal response team mobilizes, Briar drops into the operational zone with his film crew, determined to expose the environmental terrorism playing out on public lands and to protect the woman he’s never managed to forget.

When strangers start asking questions about Becca’s patrol routes, schedule, and family, the investigation turns personal fast. Someone is watching her, learning her patterns, and using the chaos of the fires as cover. With cameras rolling and the backcountry burning, Briar and Becca are forced into close quarters in a landscape where every move could be used against them, and every decision is one more spark on already volatile ground.

As old wounds, family loyalties, and a decade of unresolved attraction collide with a high‑stakes hunt for an arsonist who treats national parks like a battlefield, Briar and Becca must decide how much they’re willing to risk—for the land they protect, for the people they love, and for a relationship that could cost them everything.

Home Fires Burning is a slow‑burn romantic suspense set in the Coming Home world, following the third Ellery sibling through a story of wilderness arson, public pressure, and a “fire and ice” connection that refuses to burn out. Each book in the series stands on its own, but together they trace the Ellery family’s journey as they learn what it truly means to come home.