I suspect that Chasing Fire'is the kind of novel that will divide readers. And to top things off, Ros bachelor dad has gone and found himself a girlfriend. Someones out to take down her team, and subtlety certainly isnt part of their vocabularywere talking pigs blood, drive-by shootings and parachute slashings here. Ros romantic troubles arent the only issues shes facing, though. And when tough-talkin, good-lookin, arcade-ownin (erm) Gulliver Curry (okay, the fiance laughed aloud at that name, and rightly so) arrives on the scene, shes thrown for sure. But shes haunted by the event, her dreams full of (prophetic) nightmares, and her fire-jumping mojo a bit shaken. Ordinarily Ros attitude would be something along the lines of, unable to stand the heat? Outta the fire. Ros tough, sexy, and fearlessbut perhaps not quite as fearless as she was last season, before her jumping partner pulled the wrong toggle on his parachute and burned up. Rowan Tripp is a smoke jumper, which means she spends her days leaping from planes and battling bushfires, and her nights recovering from the trauma by drinking a heck of a lot of tequila (as an aside, Im always amazed by anyone who has the stomach for tequila past the age of about 20).

But admit it, who doesnt love a fire-fighter? (Er, and if my fiance is reading this, I find the rounded paunch and pasty skin of a software programmer very sexy, too). I know I lost some major reviewer credit when I admitted my love for Texan cowboy romances, and now that Im about to admit my soft spot for fire-fighters, no doubt Im about to drop a little further in your estimation.

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