Could anything be hotter than a hunky fireman head over heels in love?
Yep. How about THREE hunky firemen head over heels in love?? Cathryn Fox
delivers the goods in her novel The Hot Line, releasing March
4, 2008. This collection of sensual romances revolving around a firehouse
in Chicago is just the thing to usher in the warmer months this spring!
This particular firehouse has a special number for women looking for a night
of unforgettable passion with a fireman ready and willing to fulfill their
fondest fantasies. But three firemen in particular stoke the blaze a lot
hotter when they turn up the heat on the women of their dreams!
~Fever~
Working for a small town paper back in Trenton, Iowa is hardly the stuff a
reporter’s dreams are made of. When Sara Jack is given the exclusive number
for The Hot Line, she knows she has stumbled into a
career-making story that will guarantee her a job at a big Chicago
newspaper. It’s all about the story – that’s the only reason she is calling
The Hot Line. Yeah, right…
Mitch Adams is a no-strings attached playboy, good for a fling but not into
relationships. That’s the warning Sara’s friend Cassie gives her concerning
the sexy firefighter. Suddenly, nothing sounds better than an out of town
fling with none other than Mitch himself, and The Hot Line is
her ticket to a night of pleasure she is sure Mitch can deliver on. But
flings have a way of becoming so much more when you least expect it…
Although I loved all of the men in The Hot Line, I think that
Mitch Adams is my favorite. Maybe it is the whole misunderstood bad boy who
has just never found the right woman thing he has going on, but he totally
got to me. He may be a playboy at first, but that certainly all seems to
change for him the moment he lays eyes on charming small town girl, Sara.
And what isn’t there to like about Sara? Although delightfully guileless,
she doesn’t hesitate at participation in some very sexy role playing games
with the hunky fireman of her dreams, showing him she is more than eager to
fulfill his own fantasies – something that takes him very much by surprise.
With their easy banter and inventive role-playing, this couple entertains us
with a fun and light-hearted romance that made me giggle more than once.
But don’t let those giggles fool you – there is more than enough heat to go
along with those laughs in this hot little story!
~Sirens~
Jenna Powers has come a long way from the chubby little girl with braces she
used to be to a beautiful and talented lingerie designer with her own
budding business. Scheduled to do an important lingerie show by her friend
Cassie, things turn disastrous when her model falls ill at the very last
minute. With no available stand-in, things turn even more disastrous –
Jenna must model her lingerie personally.
The only thing going right is that the sexy fireman she’s been fantasizing
about left before the show started. If she has to make a fool out of
herself, at least it won’t be in front of Dean Beckman…
Dean can hardly believe his eyes when he returns from a liquor run to find
Jenna modeling a Siren-red negligee in front of a room full of people! He’s
been dreaming of seeing the buxom beauty in the lingerie she designs, but
never thought he would have the chance. But Dean is never one to let an
opportunity slip by him…
I said earlier in this review that Mitch was my favorite, but Dean Beckman
sure did give him a run for his money! With a unique blend of subtle
dominance and sensitivity heightened by his psychology studies, Dean is
quick to recognize Jenna’s physical insecurities and resolves to see her
through them. Refusing to let her hide from either him or herself, he
forces her to see herself through his eyes, to feel her own beauty and
femininity, giving her a gift as precious as his love – self-confidence.
What woman has never experience insecurities similar to those that prey on
Jenna’s confidence? Having spent her youth overweight and teased by her
classmates, she has never shaken the image of herself as frumpy, even though
her looks have certainly grown out of that description. Although uncertain
at first, she follows Dean’s lead and allows him to employ a rather
unorthodox method of changing her self-image…
Once they work past her issues, they embark on some very steamy love scenes
guaranteed to set off sparks worthy of any five-alarm fire!
~Flash Fire~
Sous
Chef Megan Wagner has a way of speaking before thinking, and what she is
usually thinking about these days is the hotter than hot firefighter Brady
Wade. Brady, in turn, has a way of turning her words and the situation to
their mutual advantage in the sexiest of ways…
But Brady isn’t out for a quick romp, he wants forever with the sassy little
cook. Convincing divorcee Megan he is nothing like her deadbeat ex-husband
is going to take some work, but he has cooked up a plan guaranteed to sweep
her off her feet…
The third story in Ms. Fox’s The Hot Line is perhaps one of
the most poignant. Here is a woman who, having been burned badly before, is
afraid to trust in love again. Too many of us can identify with Megan on
this score. Although afraid to open herself up emotionally, it does not
prevent her from enjoying a little one on one with Brady, which is just the
first step in his multi-layered plan to slip past her defenses.
Doing for others comes naturally for Brady, and doing for Megan is more than
his pleasure. And that is his secret weapon to showing Megan how completely
opposite he is from her ex, who expected everything to be done for him.
In the end, Megan realizes what Brady is offering and is surprised to find
herself eager and ready to take him up on it – a loving partnership of
equals in a give and take relationship that has all it needs to go the
distance.
Reviewed by Jennifer
