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Chris
Redding, author of INCENDIARY, an explosive romantic
suspense, is my guest this week.
What
if your past comes back to haunt you?
Chelsea James, captain of the Biggin Hill First Aid Squad,
has had ten years to mend a broken heart and forget about the man who'd left
her hurt and bewildered. Ten years to get her life on track. But fate has other
plans.
Fire Inspector Jake Campbell, back in town after a decade,
investigates a string of arsons, only to discover they are connected to the
same arsons he'd been accused of long ago. Now his past has come back to haunt
him, and Chelsea is part of that past.
Together, Chelsea and Jake must join forces to defeat their
mutual enemy. Only then can they hope to rekindle the flames of passion. But
before they can do that, Chelsea must learn to trust again. Their lives could
depend on it.
EXCERPT FROM
The electricity of an impending storm raised
the hair on Chelsea James’ arms.
She stood, barefoot, on her wide front porch,
watching the wind almost blowing the trees back and forth.
And through it all, her dead sister’s voice
played in her mind.
‘It’s like nature has to violently clean up,’
Morgan used to say when they stood in this very spot.
They’d both loved storms then.
The power of nature impressed Chelsea while
Morgan concentrated on the aftermath. Odd that Morgan never thought of the
aftermath of her own actions.
‘How so?’ Chelsea would ask her
older-by-a-few-minutes sister.
Morgan’s eyes would be wide. ‘Because a storm
gives the trees a haircut, gets rid of the ones that are weak. And on top of
that, the rain helps the ones that do survive,’ Morgan had answered.
Chelsea nodded.
But this storm didn’t bring with it the same
renewal. Somewhere deep in Chelsea, she knew this storm was different. This
storm could bring destruction.
Or worse, this storm might not bring the wanted
rain for those trees that survived.
Chelsea sighed. Right now she missed her sister
more than anything.
Then her
firehouse pager went off. “Unit 37 you have a fully involved structure fire on
Briar Lane.”
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Chris Redding lives in New Jersey with her husband,
two sons, one dog and three rabbits. She graduated from Penn State with a
degree in journalism. When she isn’t writing, she works for her local hospital
You can find her at http://chrisredddingauthor.blogspot.com
and www.chrisreddingauthor.com.
Her books are filled with romance, suspense and thrills.
2 comments:
Sounds like my kind of book, Chris, so I just downloaded it. I love a good romantic suspense. Hope it's a huge success.
Chris, thanks for sharing the excerpt. The coming storm, the fire, and Chelsea all promise an exciting story! I have it on my Kindle--looking forward to it!
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