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A collection of three romantic stories by established writers of romantic fiction. ... Read more Customer Reviews (12) 
No smoke no fire here
I was hopeful. Blaze started out like a house-a-fire, and then dwindled to a few cinders. We have here two individuals who have lost spouses to violence and who have spent years getting over it, who meet each other and immediately go bed-ballistic. Sorry, I couldn't buy it. Just a little too staged. Zero chemistry. One reviewer claimed that Nora Jones fans' would love it; well, I'm an NJ fan, and it seemed shallow and undeveloped compared to NJ's complicated characters.
Story was just an artifice for the sex. Perhaps my disappointment was greater because I had just come down off a Jack Reacher binge, where the plot-to-sex ratio is inversely proportionate to that in this novel. I longed for a little complexity. I wanted a serious plot, not just an excuse to throw two adults together. I wished for some hard-core technical details, some precision, some dead-ends and a few incredibly arcane details that pulled the whole story together, and there was NOTHING there I couldn't have found in a single google. I wanted some meat, by golly, and what I got was a sugar-high.
Oh well. Back to Jack Reacher.
New discovery
Have recently started reading some of ths author's work and very much enjoyed this effort.
hott....
This book is hott, no punn intended. I have read many mysteries and after reading quite a few you start to figure out what is going to happen next. And the worst is when you know who is the killer, murder, or all in all bad guy. It kind of ruins the book for you. But this book kept me guessing through out the hole thing. I never forsaw anything. You think that this book is going one way, typically like any other book, but then it throws you a curve ball. And then you are back to where you started. Not only is it a great mystery but it is a sexy and devilish book. The characters in this book is so unlike any I have read about. They are like real people not some fictional character. They swear for one, which totally surprised and pleased me. I could picture the whole book in modern day time because she made the characters real. In other modern day books I have a hard time picturing it. The characters in those other modern day books are so different, like they were back in the olden days. But this totally threw me off guard in a good way. It is refreshing, fun, witty, and smartly written novel. I would recommend this book to anyone who wants a sexy and mystery book.
Originally Posted on Romance Junkies in 2005
Two years ago, firefighter Daniel McGee was killed in a warehouse-turned-nightclub fire that has never been solved. He left behind his fiance, fellow firefighter Tess Gannon, his last words over the radio he carried telling her that he loved her and that the years they'd spent together were the best of his life. Now she's a member of the fire police, a virtual fireman type cop who investigates the cause of fires, and Danny's death still haunts her-especially now that an arsonist calling himself The Flamemaster is setting fires around the town of Somersett , South Carolina , and sending letters to the local newspaper threatening more fires.
At the scene of a burned down apartment building, Tess is brought face to face with Gage O'Halloran, a man dressed in jeans and cowboy boots, talking with a distinct western drawl, calling her sweetheart. Tess is soon taken to task, however, when O'Halloran flashes his ATF badge at her. Now there's two fire investigators on the scene, one from ATF and one from the FBI. Gage, though, knows better than most what type of pyromaniac they're after-he's pretty sure that Somersett's Flamemaster is connected to an arsonist serial killer who murdered his own wife.
Now Tess and Gage are facing an arsonist who will stop at nothing to get what he wants. As Tess realizes she needs to face her past and the loss of Danny, Gage discovers that attempting to keep his heart out of his feelings with Tess isn't as easy as he'd thought it would be. A killer stalks closer and closer, and an attraction grows as big as the fires they both try to prevent. For Tess and Gage, finding out who the copycat arsonist-and murderer-is before it's too late is their combined goal.
JoAnn Ross has written another winning romantic suspense tale, with a backdrop of fire and murder. Tess still isn't completely over the loss of Danny, and Gage hasn't come to terms with the death of his wife. His laid-back, alpha cowboy attitude grates on Tess's nerves at first, and Tess's inability to focus on anything except her job drives Gage crazy. As these two fight the passion that burns between them, they never lose sight of their real goal-caching the lunatic who is setting fires all over town, causing death and destruction. But once the danger is over and the threat has passed, will the feelings that Tess and Gage felt for each other during a time of high-adrenaline be able to last?
You'll have to read BLAZE to find out, but it's definitely worth it!
Fast paced suspense with romance thrown in
After Tess Gannon is thrown out of a burning building and looses her fiancé to the same fire she decides to change her career path. She has decided that being a "fire cop" aka a Fire Investigation Marshall is where her talents are best used.After 2 years she and her partner have the highest percentage of closed cases in the county.
Gage O'Halloran is a widower who lost his spouse to a horrific arsonist who targeted Gage specifically.He took an extended leave from the ATF after the trial that convicted this killer/arsonist.
When Gage's former partner brings him a copy of a recent arson case that Tess is working on he is immediately struck by the signature being the same as the "Flamemaster" that he put behind bars.Gage hops on a plane and heads to South Carolina, without being asked.Tess first meets him at the scene of the most recent Flamemaster fire and is taken back by his strong, egotistical, superior personality along with his sexual innuendo conversations.But, she is also drawn to him for the same reasons, something that hasn't happened since her fiancé was killed.Add this to the fact that he thinks the new fires are related to the one that killed her fiancé and she finds herself teaming up with him, even when she finds out he isn't still an active ATF agent.
Things are heating up for the pair. When they travel to California to talk to the Flamemaster in jail it gives them the time to be alone together and let their sexual tensions play out.It is also the opportunity for the "Flamemaster" that is in SC to booby-trap Tess's house which causes a huge fire, and destroys her house, when they are back in SC.Tess and Gage are now on a race against time to determine the identity of the "Flamemaster" that is plaguing SC before they kill Tess and more people she cares for, including Gage.
This story so enraptured me that I found myself staying up way past midnight to hear the outcome, which when you have to get up before 6am makes it hard.The initial fire where Tess looses Danny made me tear up and wish for revenge.I thought the characters were all very well developed, even if Gage was a little to unbelievable it worked with the overall story.I didn't guess who the flame master was until the very end, as it was revealed.Great romantic suspense.
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