Blurb:
What if your past comes back to haunt you?
Chelsea James, captain of the Biggin Hill
First Aid Squad, has had ten years to mend a broken heart and forget about the
man who'd left her hurt and bewildered. Ten years to get her life on track. But
fate has other plans.
Fire Inspector Jake Campbell, back in town
after a decade, investigates a string of arsons, only to discover they are
connected to the same arsons he'd been accused of long ago. Now his past has
come back to haunt him, and Chelsea is part of that past.
Together, Chelsea and Jake must join forces to
defeat their mutual enemy. Only then can they hope to rekindle the flames of
passion. But before they can do that, Chelsea must learn to trust again. Their
lives could depend on it.
Review:
From the first page, Incendiary captured my attention.
This story follows Chelsea, the daughter of a wealthy and influential man and owner of his non-profit ambulance service. Brad, her brother, is the fire chief. Jake, the new fire inspector, is also her former lover.
I found Chelsea to be a strong character, and definitely not a wallflower. She has some issues she's trying to work through, and seems to carry a lot of baggage regarding her mother and pride. The relationship with her brother is tense, at best, but they rally around each other in times of hardship. As a fire erupts in their small town, and it's determined to have been pre-set, they find themselves entangled in a devious plot to take down everything they've built since their parents deaths.
The villain was pretty predictable, but that didn't detract from the story itself. Besides a few formatting issues and a couple of scenes with confusing flow, this story was an easy read and I got through it quickly. It's suspenseful and a page turner, and I recommend it.
Excerpt:
The electricity of an impending
storm raised the hair on Chelsea James's arms. Barefoot, she stood on the wide
front porch and watched the trees blow almost in half.
Her dead sister's voice played in
her mind.
"It's like nature has to
violently clean up," Morgan would say as they stood in this very spot.
They both loved storms. The power of
nature impressed Chelsea. Morgan concentrated on the aftermath. Odd that she
never thought of the aftermath of her own actions.
"How so?" Chelsea would
ask her older-by-a-few-minutes sister.
Morgan's eyes would be wide.
"Because a storm gives the trees a haircut, gets rid of the ones that are weak.
And on top of that, the rain helps the ones that do survive."
Chelsea would nod.
But this storm didn't bring with it
the same renewal. Somewhere deep inside her, Chelsea knew this storm was
different. This storm could bring destruction— or worse—this storm might not
bring the wanted rain for those trees that survived.
She sighed. Right now she missed her
sister more than anything.
Chelsea's firehouse pager went off.
"Unit 37, you have a fully involved structure fire on Briar Lane."
As Captain of Biggin Hill First Aid
Squad, she had certain duties. But she was also a firefighter and sometimes
that took precedence. The shakiness of the dispatcher's voice told her this
fire could be big.
So tonight she'd be a firefighter.
About The Author:
Chris
Redding lives in New Jersey with her one husband, two kids, one dog, and three
rabbits. When she isn't writing she's chauffeuring her two boys to activities
and working per diem in her local hospital.
Website/Blog:
http://chrisredddingauthor.blogspot.com
Facebook:
www.facebook.com/chrisreddingauthor
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Thank you for reviewing this today. cmr
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