Book Review: Fan the Flames by Katie Ruggle

fan the flamesThe third book in the “Search and Rescue” series by Katie Ruggle, “Fan the Flames” brings the readers back to Simpson, a sleepy little town deep in the Rocky Mountains where survivalist and gun dealer Rory Sorenson lives and conducts her business.

Raised by survivalist parents and now living alone after her parents died, Rory takes the description “loner” to a new level. With no friends except her dog Jack, Rory does not socialize. Her only human interaction is through her store and all of them are just customers, except one – hot and sexy firefighter Ian Walsh.

The only person she has ever connected during her childhood, Ian is a forbidden fruit in Rory’s eyes. Nurturing a crush since she was 12, the best thing Rory could wish for when it comes to Ian is just to be his friend. That is, until Murphy’s Law took over her life and everything that could go wrong went wrong. And that was when Rory realized that Ian got her back and perhaps, much more.

With romance one of the biggest genres in fiction; it is hard to come up with an original heroine. Author Katie Ruggle did it with Rory Sorensen. A mixture of true innocence and true grit, it is hard not to fall in love with her. Awkward with a crowd but deadly with a gun, Rory is also sweet and approachable with a girl next door quality. It is not a question of “how can you not fall in love with her?” but, a question of “what’s not to love?”

A thrilling roller coaster ride with a big dose of romance on the side, “Fan the Flames” has you at hello; or because this is a book, it is probably better to rephrase it and say, it has you at the first chapter.

Fan the Flames (Search and Rescue)” is Rated M for Mature due to violence and sexual content.

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DESCRIPTION:

In the remote Rocky Mountains, lives depend on the Search & Rescue brotherhood. But in a place this far off the map, trust is hard to come by and secrets can be murder…

As a Motorcycle Club member and firefighter, Ian Walsh is used to riding the line between the good guys and the bad. He may owe the Club his life, but his heart rests with his fire station brothers…and with the girl he’s loved since they were kids, Rory Sorenson. Ian would do anything for Rory. He’d die for her. Kill for her. Defend her to his last breath-and he may just have to.

Every con in the Rockies knows Rory is the go-to girl for less-than-legal firearms, and for the past few years, she’s managed to keep the peace between dangerous factions by remaining strictly neutral. But when she defends herself against a brutal attack, Rory finds herself catapulted into the center of a Motorcycle Club war-with only Ian standing between her and a threat greater than either of them could have imagined.