The banter. The looks. The flirtatiousness. The twists!

JEA has a way of creating a story that is not only romantic but also twisted and mind-blowing. "From Air" was no exception yet I NEVER SAW THE TWIST COMING. With its blend of humor, emotion, and hopeful moments, "From Air" is another perfect story from Jewell.

Our leading characters are respectful of their own boundaries and abilities as well as each other. Jamie and Fitz have this chemistry that's far more than sexual. There's a friendship and understanding between the friends (yes, friends wink wink) that makes their journey absolutely lovely to see unfold.

This is my top read for the year!

It is written in Jamie and Fitz's alternating POV. Jamie is a young traveling nurse, and Fitz is a fire jumper. There is an age gap but it didn't dominate the storyline like I was worried it would. I instantly loved Fitz. You could tell there was something more to him and seeing him open up was lovely. Both he and Jamie have experienced tragic loss in their past, but I still wasn't prepared for how the plot twist evolved. This is part of a series but can very much be read as a standalone.

I would have read this book no matter the storyline but she had me at a house full of firefighters. I've no idea how it happens but every book this author writes manages to break me emotionally. This was a story that captivated me from the start, like the characters of Jamie and Fitz it was complex. I loved that there were moments of humour and banter that sat easily beside the tender and sexual charged moments. The angst and pain when those moments of realisation dawned, when the truth of the past was revealed were truly heartbreaking. The author managed to weave a story full of tension and surprises but also with an unforgettable love story.

This was my first time reading something from this author and I tried. I did. I wanted to like this. I just couldn't connect with these characters. They were just wayyyyy to much for me.

DNF 41%.

A slow burn opposites attract romance. This is a roommate to lovers story. Not enemies and not friends but with elements of sarcasm and flirting that helps overcome years of pain, anger, loss and stubborn determination.

Calvin Fitzgerald is opposed to love. Fighting the pain and loss he suffered losing his family he makes the decision to avoid love and therefore avoid pain. As a smoke jumper he gets his adrenaline kicks and doesn’t have to worry about leaving anyone behind or anyone worrying about him.

Jaymes Andrews is a psychiatric nurse doing temporary work at different hospitals to see the world. Landing as the roommate of Calvin, the other 2 roommates joke that maybe she can fix him. Jamie has pain of her own although she welcomes love with open arms.

Unable to avoid each other and growing closer Fitz still tries to stick to his stubborn ways while Jamie outwardly tries to accept his point of view.

Their worlds crash down around them when Jamie makes a shocking discovery. This was a twist I did not see happening and the book took on a more emotional plot from this point.

I really enjoyed reading this story and it tugged at my heart strings on more than one occasion.

Thanks to Valentine pr via NetGalley for the opportunity to read and review this.

“From Air” is the first book in Jewel E. Ann’s Wildfire series and offers a compelling mix of romance and drama. It’s an age-gap, enemies-to-friends-to-lovers story featuring a traveling psychiatric nurse and a dedicated smoke jumper.

Jamie takes a job in Montana and moves in with a group of firefighters. The only rule in the house? No dating each other. Of course, that doesn’t stop her from noticing Calvin “Fitz” Fitzpatrick. Fitz is focused on his career, often grumpy, and struggles in social situations. Still, Jamie is intrigued. What starts as teasing and banter grows into something deeper. Their chemistry is strong, and their connection becomes harder to ignore as secrets and personal challenges come to the surface.

This story delivers on humor, tension, and emotional depth. Jamie and Fitz have great interactions, and their dynamic is engaging from start to finish. I enjoyed their journey and look forward to more in this series. Jewel E. Ann is one of my favorites romance authors, and I highly recommend giving this one a read.

Thank you @authorjeweleann, Montlake Publishing, NetGalley and @valentine_pr_ for the #gifted ebook arc. All opinions expressed are my own.

I received a ARC from Netgalley and absolutely loved this book! The banter and slow burn. 👌
I liked the story line and how their story unfolds. I would recommend this book to other romance lovers understanding there is some angst, twist and turns along the way and tears.

3.5⭐️
the last 25% was the only part that really had me hooked. it was shocking (had my jaw on the floor the entire time) and heartbreaking and honestly, although this book has an hea, I highly doubt jaime & fitz would still be together after the epilogue ends. too much hurt, searing pain and chilling trauma took place. I liked the friendship jaime formed with maren and the others, though. the first 75% of this story was all over the place for me. it was overly complicated, unnecessarily dramatic (fitz was really irritating at times). there is a lot heaviness to this story, so i would definitely check triggers before reading (especially for the last 25%). i just feel like the author was just trying to fill the gaps with unnecessary behaviour from fitz in order to get to the actual plot. thank you to valentine pr & netgalley for the arc.

From Air
Pub date: 11/26/24

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This was my first Jewel E. Ann book and I absolutely loved it so much 🥰 I am so excited to read more by her!!!

Jamie is a travel nurse who goes to Montana for a 6 month assignment. She stays in a house with 3 roommates who happen to be firefighters. There is only one rule to follow, no sleeping with any roommates or you get kicked out.
The chemistry, angst and witty banter between Fitz and Jamie was 🔥
The secrets of their past lives that unfold and the emotions in this book is absolutely incredible!

🔥dual POV
🔥nurse/firefighter
🔥grumpy sunshine
🔥witty banter
🔥forbidden romance
🔥found family
🔥age gap
🔥forced proximity

I could not put this amazing book down!!! My only wish is that I didn’t wait so long to read a book by this author!! I can’t wait to read more by her!!!

Thank you @netgalley and @valentine_pr_ for this eARC in exchange for my honest review.

Good heavens! My heart! From Air swept me off my feet with hilarious comebacks, tragic fate, and unbounded love. From the moment you open the cover, you’re introduced to characters who become immediate companions despite their flaws and struggles. It’s an unforgettable, heartfelt journey with some gut-wrenching surprises in store.

Jaymes “Jamie” Andrews is a traveling nurse with a huge heart. Her new job brings her to Missoula, Montana, where she shares a house with three roommates: Will, the player; Maren, the spitfire; and Fitz, the grumpy jerk and her new pet project. He’s hiding some deep-seated feelings that Jamie wants to explore because she’s a fixer. But Fitz isn’t having it. Some things are beyond repair.

Calvin “Fitz” Fitzgerald is a smoke jumper defined by his traumatic and heartbreaking past that shaped into the person he is today. His emotional baggage leads him to his go-to defense mechanisms of snarky comments and sarcasm and putting up walls when he feels threatened or vulnerable. Yet, beneath the tough exterior lies a heart that craves connection, love, and understanding, and the beautiful, kind Jaymes Andrews can satisfy all his cravings, but at what cost?

From the start, sparks fly between Jamie and Fitz as they use humor to hide their attraction and use friendship to hide anything more. I love Jamie’s drive and selfless compassion as she waits for Fitz to master his feelings. Fitz is distant, and when he realizes his love for Jamie, it is incredibly romantic and painful as it overwhelms him. Fitz loves fiercely, and it’s beautiful to see.

This story wouldn’t be complete without Jamie and Fitz’s wonderful friends, who provide love, support, and some hard truths. Their bonds add layers to a finely crafted plot, and I hope to read more about them in the series.

Jewell E. Ann’s writing is superb. She has memorable characters and an incredible storyline. Ann masterfully manipulated my emotions from start to finish by making me laugh out loud one minute and reducing me to tears the next. Genius!

I highly recommend From Air by Jewell E. Ann. She connects with readers on a deeply personal level. The clever banter balances out the heart-wrenching grief and traumatic loss. It’s a beautiful story that should be experienced fully and embraced wholeheartedly. Pick it up, you won’t be disappointed.

Thank you to Ms. Ann for giving me the opportunity to read this book with no expectation of a positive review.

Overall Grade: A

Tropes: close proximity/roommates; smokejumper MMC; travel nurse FMC; angst; second chance

“Sometimes, for something beautiful to take to life and grow, everything around it has to be sacrificed. All we see is the destruction, but if you wait long enough — if you’re patient — magic happens.”

These words, prophetic and beautifully drawn, embody the truth of Jewel E. Ann’s From Air. This newest book, the first book of a new series — The Wildfire Series — is one of my favorite stories in 2024. I began reading Jewel E. Ann with her book, Look the Part. The witty banter between the uptight MMC and the fluidly intriguing and beguiling FMC was the draw in that story. Their immediate chemistry, the hate to love, the emotionally uptight MMC drive that story forward. Until a moment that has often been characterized as the JEA Effect — the moment in the story that comes from nowhere and takes the reader out emotionally. It’s usually shocking and rarely forecasted, so it turns your head deeper into the pages of her book. For me, that moment is where I fall more deeply in love with Ann’s storytelling.

From Air has the same feel, for me, as Look The Part. It isn’t the same story. It inhabits new worlds in the JEA universe: travel nurse and smokejumper. It’s even set in a different space, one that changes due to the FMC’s occupation. However, the witty banter that Ann writes well and the chemistry that feels complicated and messy are the mainstays of From Air. In those spaces, you find Ann’s brilliance as a writer with crisp and quotable prose. There is the JEA moment —- and it comes from nowhere. I’m usually able to see the foreshadowing of plot points, but, once again, she kept me off-balance. As a multi-year reader of romance, I loved it. My heart hurt for the characters, and the only promise I had of surviving this turn of the story was the knowledge that I was reading a romance — the promise of a HEA. And that happily ever after is perfect, more poetry in storytelling motion.

Calvin “Fitz” and Jaymes “Jamie” took me on a complicated journey filled with humor, tension, sadness, and pain. Other beautifully written characters, like their roommates Will and Maren, Fitz’s grandmother, and Jamie’s best friend, Melissa, add dimension to the story and provide hope for the future stories in this series.

As I said at the beginning of this review, From Air is one of my top five romances of 2024. Jewel E. Ann illustrates her dexterity in drawing stories that interrogate social norms, incite intense emotions, and beguile her readers. I can only look forward to the other books in this compelling series.

This book is a master piece and I think one of my fave reads of the year, definitely in my top five. I am absolutely blown away.

Jaymes (Jamie) wants to see the world after losing her mom to cancer a few years back. She signs up as a traveling nurse and take her first job in Missoula, Montana. She ends up living with a house full of firefighters, Will, Maren and the brooding Calvin Fitzgerald who is married to his job as a smokejumper fighting wild fires. Jamie is a natural fixer, and makes Calvin her pet project…what they don’t expect is to learn maybe it was destiny they crossed each others paths all along. 🫶🏻

This book is just phenomenal I am having a hard time putting all of my feelings into words. The banter, not only between Jamie & Fitz but between all of the roommates was top tier and being married to a firefighter highly accurate.

I also related a lot to Jamie being an empath myself, although I’m not a Virgo I am a Pisces 😂. Calvin, ugh where do I begin, sometimes I did have a hard time reading his chapters, because being a first responder spouse myself I could totally see where he was coming from being married to his job, focusing on the good deeds he does as a smoke jumper so he doesn’t have to worry about anyone losing him.

Their love story was just beautiful they seamlessly fell in love there was no pressure. I adored it. The way Jewel discusses grief, and healing, and moving and complicated emotions was just really moving. This book really has a special place in my heart.

If you love…
🔥banter
🫶🏻roomies to lovers
🔥found family
🫶🏻the sweetest friendships
🔥secret tattoos
🫶🏻a FMC who does not give up on the brooding MMC #l

Def check this book out! It is the first in the Wildfire Series by Jewel and I cannot wait for the next book!

Thank you to Jewel E. Ann & Valentine PR for the ARC copy of From Air!

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THIS BOOK!!! Oh my gosh you guys this book was incredible! I love books with banter and of all the books I’ve read, this is by far the most packed with banter from start to finish. I cannot get over how great this book was and really hope there’s more to come from this story in the future!

From Air is a dual POV book. Jaymes (Jamie) & Calvin (Fitz) find themselves under the same roof with two other roommates when Jamie moves to Missoula for her first travel nursing position on a psychiatric unit. Calvin is a grumpy smoke jumper who becomes Jamie’s focus because he shuts everyone out and she wants to know why. This book has a twist I didn’t see coming and really shocked me. Such a great read, I highly recommend it!!

P.S. I need Calvin Fitzgerald’s origami tissue flowers ASAP!!

It's no secret that Jewel E Ann is one of my favorite authors, I've already read 18 of her books, so when I saw an option to read an early copy of her new book, I jumped at the chance. And what can I tell you? It was perfect. I don't want to say it's my favorite book of hers, but for sure in the top three.


Jamie is a traveling nurse. she leaves Florida for the first time in her life and goes to start a new job in Montana.
When she arrives at the house where she rents a room, she discovers that her room is in a shed and that instead of one roommate, she has three firefighter roommates (one of them is a firefighter pilot and the second book in the series is about her, but that's another story 😉), she takes everything with a smile because she's like that smiling and optimistic.

In contrast, Calvin (Fitz) Fitzgerald, one of her roommates is pessimistic and very grumpy. Fitz is a smoke jumper whose job is to parachute from planes into fires and put them out from the inside. He is married to his job, not interested in a relationship, marriage or children.

The tension between Jamie and Fitz starts from the moment they meet and it's so well written... the banter between the two of them is one of the best I've ever read. And if all the contrasts are not enough to separate them, they both pledged not to sleep with one of the roommates because otherwise they would be kicked out of the house...

The first half of the book was charming and funny, but from the way I know the author, it was clear to me that she would not leave the lovely couple alone and indeed, she did not disappoint... The twist of the book made me scream and startle my family members, I was really surprised.

In conclusion, a perfect book, very witty, very romantic, but with quite a bit of drama.. I will definitely read it again

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This book was tragic but so beautiful. Words cannot begin to express my emotions right now.

I will always stand by my thoughts that the best books make you cry, and this book had me sobbing.

When they got together early on into the story I knew that I was in for heartbreak. That was my first red flag: it can’t be that easy, can it? It wasn’t. It was gut wrenching as I read how this love story was progressing. The author did an amazing job at showing the emotions the two MCs were feeling. I could feel the desperation, the longing, and the love that they felt for each other.

Fitz was aggravating me so much! It took forever for him to get himself in order, and I was scared that it would take a terrifying accident occurring for him to finally realize what he had to loose. It took pushing from different sources but I was glad when he finally went after his girl - the girl he had but recklessly pushed aside. I LOVED Jaymes. This girl was absolutely perfect. She was full of so much love to give and deserved the entire world. The pain she had to go through before getting her happily ever after was ridiculous, but I feel like her strength is what made her ending worth the wait. I could never be in her position, I honestly don’t know how she did it.

I 100% recommend this book!

I couldn’t put this book down, and now I will be binging all of her books! I thought it was just a firefighter romance, but it’s so much more. It’ll have you laughing one moment, breaking your heart the next, and then slowly putting it back together. The perfect mix of tension, banter, and longing.

Calvin is my new book boyfriend with the biggest heart, he deserves the world but has built walls around himself due to past trauma. Jamie, on the other hand, is sweet, sassy, and loves pushing his buttons…mainly to help break those walls down. The only catch? The house rule: no hooking up with with roommates.

4.5 🌟
Thank you so much to Montlake Publishing and Jewel E. Ann for providing me with an advanced copy of From Air via NetGalley! I truly appreciate it!!
Let the record show that Fitz and Jaymes had me crying in my bathroom at 11 o’clock at night…they were worth every tear. I absolutely devoured this book. It’s easy to capture my interest with the premise of roommates falling in love, she’s a travel nurse and he’s jumping out of planes to fight fires…how could they possibly work?! Oh y’all, DO THEY WORK!! I am an absolute sucker for great banter and soulmatism…they totally got me. The definition of you find love in the darndest of places. I felt their connection deep in my bones. This book was so much more than I was expecting and somehow exactly what I expected. Jewel can do no wrong and she is constantly writing these compelling novels that have me feeling everything. I thought I knew what was coming and yet again, that plot twist hit me like a freight train. See above: crying in my bathroom. I cannot wait for book two coming in the new year!

I hadn’t read a Jewel E Ann book but I had heard they were angsty and emotional.

So I’m reading the first 30% and cackling away at the interactions between Jamie and Calvin. Hilarious. Her comebacks to his dry acerbic humour, loved it. In the back of my mind however I feel I’m being set up for a fall.
I was right.

As you get further into the story the emotions dig deeper. Which I loved. I felt the struggle with them, I felt the love and the longing. When the conflict occurs the responses are believable and true to each characters personality.

Jaymes (amazing name for a girl) and Calvin were a treat to read about. The slow-burn nature of their relationship worked beautifully. The writing of the characters was done so well as I really felt like I knew them. Jewel E Ann, you have a new fan. I’m in love with the way you develop a story.

Thank you to Valentine PR and the author for the arc and this is my honest review.

From Air - Jewel E Ann

The tension between these two from the beginning was absolute perfection, their flirty banter was so fun to read!

I loved that Jewel got you to fall for both characters, then them together before breaking you apart with some wild twists and turns I didn’t see coming!

Jaymes was such a loveable FMC, she was kind and caring, and willing to push Fitz out of his comfort zone! Fitz is so so frustrating but also I kind of loved him a lot!

This was so interesting for me as it showed me all the different types of ‘firefighters’ as Jaymes ends up living with 3 who do different types of firefighting jobs! Also Jaymes being a travelling nurse was a new concept for me too!

The revelations that come to light were so so wild! I loved the way that Jewel fed you crumbs throughout before dropping the big game changer!

Honestly I would recommend this book to anyone it was such a good read!

“You’re an illusion… A distraction. I can’t stop looking at you. And I can’t stop navigating closer to you, even though I know you’re unreachable.”

If Jewel writes it, I’m going to read it! I always look forward to each new book and this one didn’t disappoint. When it comes to Jewel’s books, I never know what we’re going to get. But I’m always down for whatever emotional rollercoaster she has in store for us. Her stories always have a way of sucking you in and never letting go.

Jamie and Calvin’s story had me hooked from beginning to end. The banter and chemistry between these two was simply perfection. The connection between them was undeniable and sizzling hot! But seeing how fate seemed to bring these two together to heal one another just tugged at my heartstrings. Jaymes and Calvin’s story was the perfect mix of humor, heartbreak, and perseverance. I couldn’t get enough of this emotionally charged love story. If there’s one thing that I love about Jewel’s books is how her stories bring out all the feels and this story was quite the emotional rollercoaster. For me, this book had it all. From Air is the perfect story for fans of tropes such as enemies to lovers, small town, forced proximity, found family, grumpy/sunshine and age gap romances.

Overall, I really enjoyed this book. It’s definitely one of the best enemies to lovers romances that I’ve read in a while. This book was the perfect kickoff to Jewel’s Wildfire series and a definite must read that you won’t want to miss!