Playing with fire gets you hot, but playing with a fireman gets you wet.Fighting wildfires is dangerous as hell. If I fck it up I get a hundred-foot wall of flame coming at me with nowhere to run, no escape, and no rescue – but it’s still the best damn job in the world.And women? They practically line up to slide down my pole. I never did like repeating myself.Not since she broke my heart into a … myself.
Not since she broke my heart into a thousand pieces, anyway.
Clementine’s that ex. The one I haven’t seen in eight years. The one I thought I was going to marry until she dumped my ass while I was on active duty in Afghanistan.
The one who’s suddenly next door when my crew has a few days off in her tiny town, and who’s impossible to ignore.
She’s still hotter than any fire I’ve ever fought, still the same feisty, whip-smart, headstrong girl I fell for all those years ago.
We already went down in flames once, but I’ve never wanted anyone like I want Clementine. Not even close.
Fck it. I need to have her again, even if it’s just one more time, and to hell with the consequences.
I’ve already gotten burned once.
Hunter and I were over a long, long time ago, and there was a good reason why. Actually, there were a hundred good reasons, and I remember them all.
Until he shows up in my town, eight years older and ten times hotter. He’s left the Marines to become a wildlands firefighter. He’s rugged, hardened, dangerous, and…
…he looks at me just like he used to. He makes me laugh just like he used to, like the last eight years may as well have been eight minutes.
And when he gets close, I can’t help but think of everything else we used to do – the sweaty, naked, toe-curling things. The way he could take me from laughing to moaning in half a second.
But I know better than to think that people like Hunter change. I don’t care how wild this attraction is or how badly I want him, I’m not going down that road again.
Playing with this kind of fire may get me hot — my God does it get me hot — but it also gets me burned, and once was enough.
…or was it?
Torch is a 90,000-word, full-length standalone novel with a happily-ever-after ending and some seriously smoking hot scenes.
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This is an awesome second chance romance. I thoroughly enjoyed the plot and characters in this book.
Loved this book! This was a great second chance at romance. Hunter a forest firefighter and Clementine a forest ranger find their way back into each other lives years after they parted ways … they have to work together and in the process have a chance to work out their relationship issues … will they be able to make it work the second time?
Ms. Noir was a way with words. The story drew me in and I didn’t want to put it down. The characters were well developed and the story moved a quick pace. There was the right balance of romance, adventure, witty dialogue and hot romance scenes.
I would highly recommend this book and can’t wait to read more books by Roxie!
Ladies, listen up, the H is a hot fireman! Need I say more???
Torch is a second chance romance. Hunter and Clementine were high school sweethearts. Hunter enlisted into the Marines and the separation and insecurities from both parties was too much for young love. Eight years later, Hunter is now a fireman on the Hotshots fire crew containing forest fires and Clementine is a forest ranger. They are re-united when she is presenting a plaque to the Hotshot fire crew for containing a fire that saved a local town and they realize the spark is still there.
Hunter is the hot fireman, former Marine who, of course is quite the ladies man. Clementine is the beautiful, shy nerd. Both clearly still have strong feelings for each other and both think the other did the breaking up eight years prior.
This story was more about clearing the air and learning to love each other again while learning from their past mistakes. Throw in the threat of a forest fire and this story had me on the edge of my seat, crying at one point and deliriously happy at the end. I was so invested in these two by the end that I felt like these two were my best friends. I loved it and highly recommend!
Clem and Hunter prove that love finds a way. They are brought back together and have to work through issue and one heck of a natural disaster but in the end love will out. Steamy scenes as hot as fire and tender moments that will make you cry are enclosed at no extra charge
This book was just ok. I did lose interest at some point, but decided to go ahead and finish it. Clementine and Hunter’s relationship was filled insecurities on both sides and a lot of immaturity. This turned me off of both of them. I also didn’t like that Hunter was a playboy and got caught kinda sorta flirting with Clementine’s roommate and Clementine basically remained celibate after they broke up 8 years ago. I hate this in books. I didn’t care for their relationship at all and the story was alright overall. I didn’t hate it, but I didn’t love it. I will read other books by this author.