This coming December, I’m collaborating with a wonderful group of authors in a charity anthology called Heroes, Holidays, and Hope Vol. 3 where all the proceed supportsWounded Warrior Project®. But today I want to share the cover and blurb for my story within this anthology. It’s a novella in my Kingsmill Courtships series called One Night by Firelight. It’s about Abe Mosby, an Army Ranger, who rescues Daphne Thibodeaux, a stranded (and famous) ballerina during a rainstorm in New York State. While their attraction is instant, neither expects their paths to collide at a Memorial Day wedding deep in the Virginia mountains. But in a town full of secrets and second chances, love might be the storm they never saw coming.
One Night by Firelight
She’s looking for a way forward. He’s searching for what he left behind. Neither expected to find each other… or a lifetime of love.
After years on the front lines as an Army Ranger, Abe Mosby isn’t used to standing still. But when a half-truth sends him chasing whispers of his missing mother in Sleepy Hollow, New York, he ends up waist-deep in floodwaters while pulling a ballerina out of a sinking car.
Daphne Thibodeaux thought a weekend in the mountains of Kingsmill, Virginia for her best friend’s Memorial Day wedding might help her reset. After a career-ending injury stole her spotlight, she’s been lost, uncertain, and craving solid ground… until she meets the handsome soldier who saves her life.
Abe is all hard edges and restless energy. Daphne is grace under pressure. Yet one look, one dance, and one lightning strike of a connection forces them to confront feelings neither one understands.
But when family secrets and an outlaw MC’s trouble catches up to them in Kingsmill, the storm that brought them together might tear them apart—unless they’re willing to fight for the unexpected future they’ve only just begun to imagine.
This book releases on December 6, 2025.
One Night by Firelight will be included in the Heroes, Holidays, and Hope Romance Anthology Vol. 3, release date December 6, 2025.
Sacrifice. Valor. Patriotism.
They fought courageously on the battlefield. Now they’re fighting for love.
We are a group of Veterans and Veterans’ family members who are also bestselling and award-winning romance authors. We put our group together to publish a yearly limited edition, military romance collection set around various holidays. Each volume supports a military and veteran related charity.
We’re excited to bring you our third collection, which supports Wounded Warrior Project®, whose mission is to empower wounded service personnel through programs and services such as long-term rehabilitative care, mental health care, and career counseling.
“Peace does not come just because we wish for it. Peace must be fought for.” Lyndon Johnson, 1966. And so it is on Memorial Day that we honor those who made the ultimate sacrifice for our country and our freedom.
These stories embody sacrifice and resilience, passion and love, and the enduring human spirit. Enjoy these military romances of various tropes set around the Memorial Day holiday.
This “must have” collection is only available for 6 months after launch day, then it’s gone for good as we prepare for Volume 4!
