Fanning The Flames

by Victoria Dahl

Burning for you

Some men are off-limits. Close friends of your ex-husband, for instance. Or firefighters who work in the same building as you. Yet despite her best judgment, librarian Lauren Foster can't help noticing fire captain Jake Davis whenever he jogs by...shirtless. They've always been friends, but all it takes is one not-so-chance meeting at a local bar and one not-quite-innocent walk home to ignite a fierce, uncontrollable desire between them.

Widower Jake Davis has tried to ignore the spark he feels whenever Lauren's around, but once he sees her curves in a little black dress, there's no turning back. No matter how often she says she's all wrong for him, the sexy, outspoken divorcee is driving him wild in the best possible way. Maybe she's just blowing off steam. Or maybe he can convince her to fan these flames into something deeper, hotter and truer than they ever expected....

• ISBN10: 1488708444
• ISBN13: 9781488708442
• Publish Date: 1 July 2014 (first published 1 January 2014)
• Publish Status: Active
• Publish Country: AU
• Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
• Imprint: Mira
• Format: eBook (EPUB)
• Pages: 89
• Language: English

Reviews

[leelu92]

3.5 hot and steamy stars.

[Linda]

*I received a free ARC of Fanning the Flames from Harlequin HQN via Netgalley in exchange of an honest review*

This and all my other reviews are originally posted on my blog (un)Conventional Bookviews

[Leah]

Over the past year I’ve come to very much enjoy Victoria Dahl’s novels. They’re more romance-y than I usually read and a lot steamier, but I enjoy her brand of romance and I adore her love stories. Her writing flows so naturally and I love her Jackson series. So I was very excited to download her new novella Fanning The Flames from Netgalley, which is a nice little filler novella before her next release, Looking For Trouble (which I’ll be reading REALLY soon).

Fanning The Flames is a very quick, thirty-minute read telling the hot, hot, hot story of Lauren and Jake. Lauren works at the library, and Jake works at the firehouse right next door and after years of marriage on Lauren’s end (and an 8 year single period) and widowhood on Jake’s end, they’re both feeling ready to start again… But it’s kinda awkward since Jake knew Lauren’s husband and Lauren knew just how sweet Jake’s dearly departed wife, Ruth, was…. But their chemistry is hot, and they can barely deny their attraction to each other, but will it be more than just chemistry that keeps them together?

I thoroughly enjoyed Fanning The Flames, it was quick, it was cute, and the chemistry between Lauren and Jake was sky-high, something Dahl more than excells at with her novels. It leads very nicely into Lauren’s best friend Sophie’s story in Looking For Trouble, and I’m hoping (FINGERS CROSSED) we’ll see more of Lauren and Jake in Looking For Trouble, even just a little mention of them would be awesome! I just loved this little novella and I imagined Jake as an older Taylor Kinney just because Kinney plays a firefighter in Chicago Fire and Jake, too, is a firefighter. (I’m terrible, aren’t I?) Dahl fans will devour this, it was fabulous!