Book Title: FIRE MOUNTAIN
Character Name: Kit Garrido
How would you describe your family or your childhood?
It’s a bit of a hot mess, but my parents loved me in the best way they could. I thought our family was perfect when I was a kid. I didn’t realize my own ignorance until my father committed a felony when I was a young teen. He did a bad thing for a very good reason, but my mother could never forgive him. That rip in our family became impossible to mend after a while.
What was your greatest talent?
I’m a long haul trucker and I can drive an eighteen wheeler easy as anything. I know it sounds like boasting, but I can probably operate any motor vehicle. If it has wheels, I can drive it.
Significant other?
No. I was married briefly. It was sort of a crash and burn type scenario.
Biggest challenge in relationships?
I don’t want to be the person someone comes to rely on. That’s too much responsibility and I saw how my father collapsed under the weight of it. I keep to myself and that’s the way I like it.
Where do you live?
When I’m not sleeping in my rig, I have a trailer in a small town in Washington. It’s surrounded by trees and it’s quiet. I run my business from there too. Even my assistant works remotely.
Do you have any enemies?
I didn’t until my last haul. I was headed out of the region along with everyone else because Mount Ember is about ready to erupt. Something happened and I stopped…and my life went off the skids. I crashed my truck and there’s a stranger’s baby in the back of my rig and I can’t remember one single thing about any of it. If that isn’t enough, someone wants this baby and they’re hunting us.
How do you feel about the place where you are now?
Is there something you are particularly attached to, or particularly repelled by, in this place? I’m on the run with an infant and a man I’ve never met before and there’s a volcano about to swallow us up. I’d give anything to have my beautiful rig back and be rolling along like I’d planned. My truck is my life and now it’s a pile of rubble. I don’t really have time to think about it much because we have to get out of this area immediately if we want to live.
Do you have children, pets, both, or neither?
None, but I’d been thinking about getting a cat. I met another driver who takes his cat along and it does just fine. It would be nice to have another living creature to talk to on those long drives.
What do you do for a living?
As I mentioned, I’m a long haul trucker. Not common for a woman, but there are more of us all the time. You have to be strong, organized, skilled, and able to take care of yourself to do this job.
Greatest disappointment?
My dad and I always dreamed about getting an RV and driving across country. We never made it happen and he died soon after he was released from prison. That ache will never go away.
Greatest source of joy?
Knowing I’m independent, taking care of myself, and I have total control over my life and my work. Or at least I did, until a few days ago.
What do you do to entertain yourself or have fun?
I’m an avid reader and I love listening to music. I’m teaching myself to knit also, but so far I’ve only produced a half a sock.
What is your greatest personal failing, in your view?
I was pregnant, briefly, and instead of being happy about it, I was…traumatized. I didn’t realize I wanted the baby until I lost it. That’s hard to admit.
What keeps you awake at night?
Financial worries, but I will find a way to survive. I’m not a quitter.
What is the most pressing problem you have at the moment?
Survival. Not only is it going to be almost impossible to escape the eruption, there are men searching for us in order to make sure we don’t live to reach help. I don’t know what they want. The baby? Her mother? Me?
Is there something that you need or want that you don’t have? For yourself or for someone important to you?
I need my truck, but it’s gone. Now I have to rely on Cullen Landry, this cowboy who showed up and saved me and the baby from the crash and a gunman. He’s a funny guy and he’s named the baby Tater Tot, but all I want is to get out of this mess and get the baby to safety.
Why don’t you have it? What is in the way?
It’s going to be a very long journey and it’s unlikely we’re going to survive, the three of us, but I’m not going to let anyone hurt this baby if I can help it. Cullen feels the same way. We’re going to need a miracle to get out of this because the whole mountain is on fire.
Elements of Danger #1
In the shadow of a threatening volcano, long-haul trucker Kit Garrido wakes up in her crashed big rig, unable to recall what happened or why she's suddenly in possession of someone's baby. Fiercely independent, she has to admit that perhaps this time she could use a little help.
As the threat of eruption grows, former cop Cullen Landry refuses to leave his cabin in the evacuation area, which is why he's the only one left who can help Kit escape the crumpled cab of her truck. He doesn't want to get tangled up in the mystery of the beautiful woman with an abandoned infant, but when he sees the bullet hole in the windshield and the bloody handprint on the interior, he realizes that he's in this thing, like it or not.
When two armed men with ill intent approach, the race is on to stay alive, discover the truth, and find the baby's missing mother--all while a deadly mountain rains fire from above.
Experience the explosive start to this nail-biting series from USA Today bestselling author Dana Mentink!
Christian | Mystery | Romance Suspense [Baker Publishing Group, On Sale: July 1, 2025, Paperback / e-Book , ISBN: 9780800746520 / eISBN: 9781493450664]
Dana Mentink is a national and Publisher's Weekly bestselling author. She's written more than forty mystery and suspense novels for Love Inspired Suspense, Harvest House, and Poisoned Pen Press. She is honored to have received two ACFW Carol Awards, a Holt Medallion Award, and a Romantic Times Reviewer's Choice Award.
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