Never Too Hot

Informationen zum Autor Bella Andre Klappentext A TOUCH IGNITES. A FIRE BURNS. AND THE HEAT HAS JUST BEGUN. Deep in the cool green mountains of the Adirondacks! wounded firefighter Connor MacKenzie has come to rebuild the 100-year-old MacKenzie family cabin-and to be alone. A horrific blaze has left him scarred inside and out and certain of two things: He'll get back on his Hot Shot crew no matter what it takes! and any woman who ventures too close will not stay long. Ginger Sinclair has been burned by a different kind of fire. Having just escaped from a bad marriage! she's retreated to the safety of the lakeside vacation town in upstate New York to start a new life. She's done with men! with relationships! with the danger of desires that can rage out of control-until she unexpectedly encounters Connor MacKenzie. As a hot summer on the lake grows ever hotter! they find themselves sharing a cabin and a romance that will swiftly engulf them both. Leseprobe Chapter One Connor MacKenzie slid his rental car into the gravel driveway behind the old log cabin and was pulling the keys out of the ignition when the cheap metal key ring scraped against his palm. He swore as it bit into the bumpy, scarred flesh, skin that still felt too tight every time he flexed his hands or made a fist. Still, today was one of the good days. All through the flight and the two-hour drive from the airport through winding back roads he’d been able to feel everything he touched. The worst days were the ones where the numbness won. Days when it took everything in him to fight back the angry roars, when he felt like a wounded lion crammed into a four-by-four-foot cage in some zoo, just waiting for the chance to escape and run free again. To be whole and king of the jungle again. His hand stung as he pulled off his seat belt and slammed the driver’s-side door shut. He needed to get out to where he could see the water, breathe it in. Calm the f*** down. Get a grip. This lake, deep in the heart of the thick Adirondack woods, would set him straight. It had to. He’d come from another lake, from twelve years in California’s Lake Tahoe fighting wildfires. But he couldn’t stay there another summer, couldn’t stand to watch his brother and friends head out to fight fire after fire while he went to physical therapy and worked with rookies in the classroom, teaching them from books and trying not to notice the way they stared at the thick scars running up and down his arms from his multiple grafts. Coming to Blue Mountain Lake had been his brother’s idea. “Dianna and I want to get married at Poplar Cove end of July,” Sam had said. They’d been planning a big wedding for late fall, at the end of fire season, but now that Dianna was pregnant, their schedule had moved up several months. “After all these years, especially with Gram and Gramps down in Florida full-time, I’m sure the cabin needs work. Might be a good project for the next few weeks. Better than hanging around here, anyway.” Connor had wanted to camp outside the Forest Service headquarters until they agreed to sign his umpteenth round of appeal papers, the papers that would put him back on his Tahoe Pines hotshot crew. He’d been jumping through one Forest Service hoop after another for two long years, working like hell to convince the powers that be that he was ready—both mentally and physically—to resume his duties as a hotshot. Up until now they’d said there was too much risk. They thought it was too likely that he’d freeze, that he might not only take himself out, but a civilian too. Bullshit. He was ready. More than ready. And he was sure this time his appeal would be approved. But he could see what Sam was saying. Getting at the log cabin with a saw and hammer and paintbrush, running the trails around the lake and going for long, cool swims might do some...

Product details

• Authors: Bella Andre
• Publisher: Bantam Books USA
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 25.05.2010
• EAN: 9780440245025
• ISBN: 978-0-440-24502-5
• No. of pages: 368
• Dimensions: 107 mm x 175 mm x 24 mm
• Series: Hot Shots Men of Fire; Hot Shots Men of Fire; Random House Publishing Group
• Subject: Fiction > Narrative literature