Chasing Fire

Informationen zum Autor Nora Roberts Klappentext In this #1 New York Times bestseller, Nora Roberts delves into the world of elite firefighters who thrive on danger and adrenaline—men and women who wouldn’t know how to live life if it wasn’t on the edge. Little else in life is as dangerous as fire jumping. But there’s also little else as thrilling—at least to Rowan Tripp. Being a Missoula smoke jumper is in Rowan’s blood: her father is a legend in the field. At this point, returning to the wilds of Montana for the season feels like coming home—even with reminders of the partner she lost last season still lingering in the air. One of the best of this year’s rookie crop, Gulliver Curry is a walking contradiction, a hotshot firefighter with a big vocabulary and a winter job at a kids’ arcade. And though Rowan, as a rule, doesn’t hook up with other smoke jumpers, Gull is convinced he can change her mind...  But everything is thrown off balance when a dark presence lashes out against Rowan, looking to blame someone for last year’s tragedy. Rowan knows she can’t complicate things with Gull—any distractions in the air or on the ground could be lethal. But if she doesn’t find someone she can lean on when the heat gets intense, her life may go down in flames. Leseprobe 1 Caught in the crosshairs of wind above the Bitterroots, the jump ship fought to find its stream. Fire boiling over the land jabbed its fists up through towers of smoke as if trying for a knockout punch. From her seat Rowan Tripp angled to watch a seriously pissed-off Mother Nature's big show. In minutes she'd be inside it, enclosed in the mad world of searing heat, leaping flames, choking smoke. She'd wage war with shovel and saw, grit and guile. A war she didn't intend to lose. Her stomach bounced along with the plane, a sensation she'd taught herself to ignore. She'd flown all of her life, and had fought wildfires every season since her eighteenth birthday. For the last half of those eight years she'd jumped fire. She'd studied, trained, bled and burned-outwilled pain and exhaustion to become a Zulie. A Missoula smoke jumper. She stretched out her long legs as best she could for a moment, rolled her shoulders under her pack to keep them loose. Beside her, her jump partner watched as she did. His fingers did a fast tap dance on his thighs. "She looks mean." "We're meaner." He shot her a fast, toothy grin. "Bet your ass." Nerves. She could all but feel them riding along his skin. Near the end of his first season, Rowan thought, and Jim Brayner needed to pump himself up before a jump. Some always would, she decided, while others caught short catnaps to bank sleep against the heavy withdrawals to come. She was first jump on this load, and Jim would be right behind her. If he needed a little juice, she'd supply it. "Kick her ass, more like. It's the first real bitch we've jumped in a week." She gave him an easy elbow jab. "Weren't you the one who kept saying the season was done?" He tapped those busy fingers on his thighs to some inner rhythm. "Nah, that was Matt," he insisted, grin still wide as he deflected the claim onto his brother. "That's what you get with a couple Nebraska farm boys. Don't you have a hot date tomorrow night?" "My dates are always hot." She couldn't argue, as she'd seen Jim snag women like rainbow trout anytime the unit had pulled a night off to kick it up in town. He'd hit on her, she remembered, about two short seconds after he'd arrived on base. Still, he'd been good-natured about her shutdown. She'd implemented a firm policy against dating within the unit. Otherwise, she might've been tempted. He had that open, innocent face offset by the quick grin, and the gleam in the eye. For fun, she thought, for a careless pop of the cork out of the lust ...

Product details

• Authors: Nora Roberts
• Publisher: Berkley Publishing Group
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 03.01.2023
• EAN: 9780593637777
• ISBN: 978-0-593-63777-7
• No. of pages: 464
• Dimensions: 130 mm x 203 mm x 23 mm
• Subject: Fiction > Science fiction, fantasy