Behind the brightest smile, can lay the darkest truth...KEETS: I watched in horror the day the World Trade Centre collapsed, taking with it my fiancee and unborn child. As a firefighter on the scene, I blame myself for not rescuing them. Enlisting in the United States Army did nothing to dissuade my guilt, it only proved to me what I knew all along: The world is too cruel, too dark and twisted to live in any longer. So I'm taking the easy way out. On the 14th anniversary of 9/11, on my 40th birthday, I will return to Ground Zero, where I will finally be reunited with my loved ones. Forever. I have just three weeks left to live. NATALIE: It would destroy my sister if she ever found out why I really came back home. She thinks I'm just here to help out with Saddles, but the truth is I have a secret, one that tears me apart and threatens to consume me. It was just one night. One stupid, messed-up, drunken night. The consequences will live with me forever. When these flawed hearts collide, will they heal one another... or burn together in a blaze of glory?

Amaranth is so desperate for a ride across state lines that she will do anything to get it… even accept a ride from a man she hasn't seen since high school, Jax Hawthorne. Jax Hawthorne is the bass player for the world famous heavy metal band, Manacle. Scores of women throw themselves at his feet every day and he loves all of them…. But when he sees Amaranth he is transported back to his awkward school days when he used to ogle her from a distance. Determined to finally have her, he agrees to drive her across state lines with the rest of the band in exchange for one thing.... herself. For five days, she is to submit to him in any way he requests. It doesn’t take long before passions ignite in a torrent of flames, and both of them question if they’ll be able to get through the trip with their hearts intact. ARE YOU READY TO BURN?

US Special Forces, Staff Sargeant Ethan Stone, lives by one mantra “fight or die”. The army is his life, his men are his family. So when an injury sends him home from Afghanistan, the nightmares of what he’s witnessed, can no longer be kept at bay. The alcohol he drowns himself in every night only sinks him further into depression’s abyss.Waking after one of his benders, Stone is greeted by a tiny, knife wielding firecracker and one destroyed bar. Saddles, was meant to be her escape. A new start away from an abusive relationship and a way to fulfill her daddy’s dying wish. But all the bar has brought Shannon is debt collectors and pushy buyers threatening to destroy her. And to top all that off one drunken, gorgeous idiot. The last thing she needed was a handsome, angry ex-soldier to distract her. All he wanted, was to pay for the damages. But when she refuses there is only one thing he can do. But when a familiar face from his past changes everything, can they learn to work together? Will they find salvation in each other’s arms?