Review: Incredible beginning
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 01 15, 2014
I was beyond ecstatic when I found out that the incredible team of Laura Harner, Lee Brazil, Havan Fellows, and T.A. Webb were going to continue their Pulp Friction success and write one for 2014! On that note, in my opinion, each series by each author can be read as a stand alone, however I found it much more enjoyable to read each book by the different authors as they were released since they tie together and I didn't want to miss anything. 'Firestorm' is the very first in the group and as usual, Ms. Harner batted it out of the ballpark.Scott McGregor is a firefighter who was injured in one of the horrific summer wildfires in Arizona and has spent the past six months in a burn unit in Albuquerque. The fact that I live in Arizona and had a front row seat to this horror last summer simply made Scott much more real to me sooner. In an odd quirk of fate, when Scott was admitted to the hospital, he had an old emergency contact card indicating Robby Hammond, Scott's college roommate and former lover whom Scott hasn't seen in twelve years. It might have been twelve years, but these two still have serious sparks flying, in the way only this author can write.Scott risked his life to save a member of his firefighting team, and while Danny is alive he was burnt worse than Scott, and is in a facility in Phoenix. Danny's parents owned a family resort in Flagstaff and they convinced Scott to take it over, as they wanted to move down to be closer to their son. They tried to give it to him, but he negotiated a price, sight unseen, and having finally been discharged from the hospital, Robby drove him to Mountain Shadows, in the middle of a blizzard. Scott was assuming (bad boy) that this was a family resort, one step up from a campground. It has fourteen cabins, three of which are on a yearly lease, and the main lodge. Well, when he and Robby get there, what Scott has purchased is a gorgeous, elegant resort.Within ten minutes of arriving at the lodge, Scott is dozing, hyped up on pain meds, and Robbie has just met the first of the three permanent residents, Professor Dagfiner (Finn) Lorenson, who has a Colt .45 pointed in his face. Just a misunderstanding as Finn is looking out for everything until the new owner gets there. After Scott wakes up, he and Robbie are having some dinner when they hear a woman screaming. Saving another tenant, Jillian, and her little girl, Maddie, from an abusive live-in, makes the excitement of their first day top-notch! Welcome to Flagstaff!Now, I have absolutely NO idea where this Pulp Friction, four series, twenty books, four different authors, is going, but I'm dying to get to the bottom of Scott and Robby. No pun intended. Scott has always known that Robby is the one for him, but when circumstances caused their break-up all those years ago, contact between the two has been significantly limited. It's easy to tell there is one hell of a story line coming up ahead in just this 'Fighting Fire' series. Robby is a park police ranger and he must feel something for Scott since he changed jobs to work in Flagstaff, but there's some history there. Hmm.This author has set the stage for the coming books. Scott and Robby are the focus of Laura Harner's series. The other tenants in the cabins, Finn, Rowen, and a new guy who just moved here from back East with a gorgeous Shelby muscle car, will be featured in the works by Lee, Havan, and Tom. Oh, I can't wait! But, for this first book - I loved it, and as expected, Ms. Harner left me on a cliffhanger. I'm going to be stalking her for the next story. *grins*