Riley Carter knows how to run into burning buildings. Falling for Avery Quinn is a different kind of risk.The professional line between them is finally gone, but that only makes the pull harder to ignore.What starts with one chance meeting, one exchange of texts, and one coffee that is definitely not a date quickly becomes something far more dangerous: hope.As Riley lets Avery closer, the silence in her head begins to change, and for the first time, she is not bracing for disaster—she is bracing for something good.But wanting this means trusting it, and trust has never come easily to Riley, not with her job, not with her heart, and not with a woman who already knows how to see straight through her.Station 17: After The Tie Ends is an adult sapphic firefighter romance featuring slow-burn tension, first dates, a rain-soaked first kiss, and the moment longing finally becomes choice.