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Up Close by Debra Webb, a contemporary journalist/firefighter romance originally out from Kensington's Precious Gems imprint in 1999.
Abby Wade is a New York City woman through and through. Her career as one of UP CLOSE magazine’s top writers is her life. Who needs a complicated relationship? Abby has never once heard the ticking of any biological clock. Her life is perfect just the way it is…until she is sent to a small southern town to cover a local hero. How could the warm-hearted, eccentric folks of a small town have her questioning the future she has chosen?
Matthew Stone lives in the house his grandfather built. He’s just a regular guy who loves his work as a jack-of-all-trades handyman for the folks in his small Tennessee hometown. He does not consider himself a hero. As a volunteer firefighter, rescuing the children from a burning house was his duty. When he is chosen as hometown hero of the month for a national magazine, he would rather do most anything than be interrogated by some hotshot big city reporter…he doesn’t see falling for her coming. The fire that ignites between them is a definite four-alarm!