Hot Pursuit
This firefighter is five-alarm hot!For Braden Zimmer, leading his team of Hotshot firefighters isn't just about being the best—it's about sensing when a fire is coming. And a scorcher is definitely on its way. Maybe it's from the dangerous arsonist who's targeted him. Or maybe it has something to do with the sexy little arson investigator who's been sent to protect Braden…Sam McRooney may be tiny and blonde but she doesn't mess around. Braden is in serious danger, and she's not about to jeopardize his life—even if he is hot enough to leave scorch marks on her libido. But with the arsonist growing bolder by the day, getting too close to this hunky Hotshot won't just get her burned…it could get her killed.
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This firefighter is five-alarm hot!
For Braden Zimmer, leading his team of Hotshot firefighters isnât just about being the bestâitâs about sensing when a fire is coming. And a scorcher is definitely on its way. Maybe itâs from the dangerous arsonist whoâs targeted him. Or maybe it has something to do with the sexy little arson investigator whoâs been sent to protect Braden...
Sam McRooney may be tiny and blonde but she doesnât mess around. Braden is in serious danger, and sheâs not about to jeopardize his lifeâeven if he is hot enough to leave scorch marks on her libido. But with the arsonist growing bolder by the day, getting too close to this hunky Hotshot wonât just get her burned...it could get her killed.
âFor the first time I think I understand the arsonist...â
Samâs brow furrowed as she stared up at Braden. âHow?â
âSometimes you have a compulsion to do something and you just canât fight it...â
âYou have a compulsion to set a fire?â
âI have a compulsion to do this...â He touched herâjust his fingertips along her jaw. Her skin was so silky, just like her hair, which brushed across his hand. He tipped up her chin, and when he lowered his mouth to hers he felt a jolt.
Maybe she felt the jolt, too, because she gasped. And he deepened the kiss, dipping his tongue inside her mouth to taste her. She was sweet and sexy and hot as hell.
He felt the fire burning between them.
Then something flew through the open window, dropping onto the hardwood floor with a crash of breaking glass.
A Molotov cocktail.
Now there was a real fire burning in the house. And like his kissing Sam, it was quick to get out of control...
I hope youâve been enjoying reading my Hotshot Heroes series for Harlequin Blaze as much as Iâve been enjoying writing the books. Iâve had so much fun with the Hotshotsâ camaraderie and with their resistance to falling in love. All of them have fallen but for one. Superintendent Braden Zimmer has the biggest reason for avoiding love. Heâs already been burnedâbadlyâwith a horrible marriage that ended in divorce. And now heâs busy trying to track down the arsonist whoâs been terrorizing his hometown and home base of Northern Lakes, Michigan.
Sexy arson investigator Sam McRooney might solve one problem. If sheâs as good as her reputation, sheâll catch the firebug who has now started sending Braden threatening notes. Or she might make herself the arsonistâs next target... Braden wants to protect her. He also wants herâbadly. But he has to resist, or risk being burned again. Please enjoy the exciting conclusion to this hot series!
Happy reading!
Lisa Childs
Ever since LISA CHILDS read her first romance novel (a Harlequin story, of course) at age eleven, all she wanted was to be a romance writer. With over forty novels published with Harlequin, Lisa is living her dream. She is an award-winning, bestselling romance author. Lisa loves to hear from readers, who can contact her on Facebook, through her website, lisachilds.com, or her snail-mail address, PO Box 139, Marne, MI 49435.
With great appreciation for Laura Barth, my amazing editor, who helped me so much with writing this series! Thank you for your wonderful insight and support!
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ANOTHER BIG FIRE was coming. Braden Zimmer didnât see or smell the smoke yet. He didnât hear the crackle and roar of the flames. But he felt itânot the heat; he felt the certainty and the dread and the foreboding.
A fire was coming.
Unless he could stop it...
Unless he could stop the arsonist...
For months Braden, the superintendent of the Huron Hotshots, an elite team of US Forest Service firefighters, had been trying to find the person responsible for setting fires in his home base of Northern Lakes, Michigan. But he was no closer to nailing a suspect than heâd been when the first fire was set six months ago.
He wasnât giving up. He wouldnât stop looking until he found the person responsible for the fires. But he could no longer argue he didnât need help. Yet catching up an arson investigator from the US Forest Service who knew nothing about the case was going to take more time Braden didnât have.
Not when he was so certain another fire would be set soon. It wasnât just his instincts warning him about another blaze. It was the arsonist himself.
He glanced down at the note heâd found sitting on his desk in the Northern Lakes firehouse. There was no envelope. It hadnât been mailed; it had been placed on the scratched surface of his old metal desk. The son of a bitch had walked right into the firehouseâinto Bradenâs office. Too bad they didnât have security cameras in the firehouse. But they had never needed them; until the fires, there had never been much crime in Northern Lakes. The arsonist had been getting bolder and bolder with each fire, but this was ridiculous.
