
When The Smoke Clears by Jewel E. Ann is now live!
From USA Today bestselling author Jewel E. Ann comes a bittersweet second-chance romance about deferred love, impossible timing, and the courage of choosing happiness after devastating loss.
Everleigh Reichart and William Landry fell hard—and far too fast. Their weeklong romance ended the moment Will, a twenty-nine-year-old firefighter, learned the truth: Everleigh was seventeen. He walked away to protect them both. Destiny had other plans.
Eleven years later, Will is still running into burning buildings, while Everleigh has become a brilliant psychiatrist. When a house fire strands her on his land, their old feelings ignite like patient embers. But she’s desperate to keep concealing the childhood trauma that has shaped her life, and he’s struggling under the weight of his father’s terminal illness. Too soon, the strain snaps their fragile reunion, flinging them farther apart than ever before.
Now Everleigh must face her past to salvage a future with Will…if he can accept that loving her includes the broken parts too. But first, he needs to come and find her—this time by faith, not fate.
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Sunny Shelly’s Review: 3.5 Stars
After getting glimpses of Will and Everleigh in the previous books of this series, I was excited to get to their story in When the Smoke Clears.
Eleven years ago, Will and Everleigh had a whirlwind romance that came crashing to a stop when he discovered that she was just shy of 18. In the present day, the two become unlikely roommates after Everleigh loses everything in a house fire and all of those old feelings come rushing back. But their reunion isn’t an easy one, because Will is dealing with supporting his mother as his father is dying of Alzheimer’s, and Everleigh has a ton of baggage thanks to childhood trauma that affects every decision she makes.
The story is told in past and present chapters, so we get to see the characters fall in love/lust, and then how the end of the relationship impacted them both. I felt this book straddled a line where the age gap made me cringe a bit. At times, I felt that Everleigh’s immaturity caused issues for the couple, and at other times, Will just treated her so poorly (although with good reason, because he lived in constant fear for years that he was going to end up behind bars because of their initial relationship), I couldn’t fathom *why* she was so in love with him.
It all came together in the end, but it took a lot for Will and Everleigh to get there. It’s messy and their history is complicated, but there are some bright spots in their story. I enjoyed the twist in the end that had Will groveling to get Everleigh back, but wished I’d gotten to see that good-guy side to him sooner. I enjoyed their story, but I liked others in the Wildfire series better.
I received a complimentary copy and voluntarily left a review.































