Running away is never the right choice, but what if staying means facing down fears everyday for the rest of your life. Pretty awesome thought and enough of a scary option that flight might seem to be the only option for keeping your sanity. Life is hard. A life filled with panic attacks leaves you filled with dread worrying over when the next one would come; what would bring this debilitating attack on. So the best course of action would be to remove yourself from all possible triggers. If that means leaving your family home well that's what you would do.

Jill Shalvis teaches a valuable lesson in Seeing Red. It's much better to face down your fears as a means to gain back self-confidence and courage that was only temporarily lost. In the end what you gain will be worth the agony of staring down your deepest fears and nightmares.

Love is always the answer and Shalvis fills her books with people who are caring and devoted to others. She understands the value of a really good hug. You might say that reading a Shalvis book is like getting a bear hug. What you get is a good feeling, meeting some wonderful characters while figuring out just what this writer has hidden up her sleeves for us all.

Joe has had it bad for Summer since they were teens. They were best friends but for Joe it was so much more. Summer or Red as he called her was his safety net from an abusive father. She was his escape hatch when his world was becoming violently dangerous. Red came from a very close loving family. She couldn't begin to understand what went on behind the closed doors of Joe's home life. But she knew his pain. Joe used food as his escape and so he had yet another battle to win as he grew up. The one person who seemed to see beyond his girth was his Red. Perhaps this was still another reason for his undying love and devotion to this girl.

No one would have ever anticipated the abrupt departure, when Red seemed to vanish from her home and family. And to Joe it was as if a huge part of him was missing, the one person who held his heart in her hand was now absent from his life. Red was running. Not from Joe but from the fright of losing her father in a tragic fire and her inability to save him. Some would say she was lucky that her memory of that event was vague. Perhaps it's best that our minds can put these events is a place deeply hidden. But Reds panic attacks were real, there was something fighting to come to the front, some memory of the fire and now returning home to help her mother recover from still another incident is something Red is not totally prepared for.

Truthfully she is also ill prepared to see Joe again. But this Joe is nothing like the boy she left behind so many years ago. Joe is now an arson investigator. The fires that are targeting Red's family business are beginning to look less like coincidence and accidental.

The investigation of a possible arsonist draws us deep into a mystery that spanned many years. Shalvis keeps us on our toes as the list of suspects seems longer than anyone could have imagined, and the pool of suspects includes some unexpected choices. The suspense will keep you on the edge of your seats till the very end.