Grand Central Publishing
Featuring: Summer Abrams; Joe Walker
352 pages ISBN: 1455547565 EAN: 9781455547562 Kindle: B00AWBU3D6 Paperback / e-Book Add to Wish List
Joe Walker is now a fire marshal, having overcome a
troubled background as a chubby kid bullied at school and
at home. In SEEING RED, a warehouse fire requires his
presence as arson is a possibility. That warehouse had been
the scene of a tragic event thirteen years previously, when
the girl he adored just escaped an earlier fire though her
father was killed. Summer Abrams left San Diego to study
and hasn't spoken to him since. This time however Joe has
rescued her cat Socks, and Summer's coming in person to
collect it.
Summer doesn't like commitments and is haunted by the fact
that she couldn't avert the tragedy when she was just a
gawky girl being chased by the boys. Looking at the debris
today, she feels a panic attack begin, an unusual event for
someone who organises wilderness adventures. The
firefighters invite her to sit down. Then she gradually
recognises Joe, dirty and scraped but hot as molten lava.
Joe's in a relationship, one he never gets time to sustain,
but even if he was single, Summer's hardly here to stay....
We get a tour of San Diego's Gaslamp Quarter, once
apparently notorious but now renovated in Victorian style
and given a cultural theme. Summer's mother runs an
interior furnishings store here, and has got used to doing
without help from her daughter, who realises that she
doesn't have a place in the family anymore. Sometimes
gaining what we want means losing what we didn't realise we
had. Summer has promised to aid her mother while the fire
is being investigated, but the staff resent her
interference. Other than the cat, is there nobody who
really needs her?
Jill Shalvis wrote SEEING RED in 2005 and it is being re-
released with two other firefighter novels to bring it to a
new readership. The popular author of the Lucky Harbor
series and other romance novels includes a couple of
excerpts at the end of SEEING RED. Her fans will be
pleased to get a chance to read more from Jill and to learn
about the work of tracing deliberately started fires as
well as the secrets of the heart.
IT ONLY TAKES A SPARK
Summer Abrams left everything behind-the warehouse fire that
took her father's life, the town where her world fell apart,
and her best friend in the world, Joe Walker. All she
carried with her was guilt. Now, twelve years later, another
fire has devastated the same warehouse, and Summer returns
to Ocean Beach to search for answers. But what she finds
first is an old flame that never went out . . .
Joe Walker has become the town fire marshal-sexy, strong,
and an expert at keeping people at bay. The only person he
ever let into his heart broke it and left town without a
word. Now that she's back, Joe swears he won't fall for
Summer again . . . but the heat between them is
irresistible. As he tries to help her heal the past, can he
take a risk on building a future with Summer?
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