Into the Fire

A winner

At the urgings of her mother, boarding schoolteacher Jamie Kincaid drives from her Rhode Island home to Cooperstown, Wisconsin to learn what happened to her cousin, Nate. Officially, Nate was found murdered in the garage of his best friend Dillon Gaynor.

Jamie¿s car breaks down near Dillon¿s establishment, forcing him to provide hospitality to her. She stays under his hostile roof with her money and credit cards soon missing and while she waits for her vehicle to be repaired. Only his ¿pal¿ Mousy treats her nice. Still though a dozen years have passed since they last saw one another the attraction between the daughter of wealth and the bad boy blossoms into an adult love. However, the specter of Nate and the more to life that her mother the ¿duchess¿ espouses stands in the way of anything permanent.

This is an entertaining romantic suspense with a hint of supernatural happenings (read the novel to determine if it is a ghost or not). The story line is exciting, but the audience will become a bit irritated with Dillon¿s consistent nasty behavior towards Jamie. Still Anne Stuart provides a solid tale that will please her fans that will only want the best for the warm heroine.

Harriet Klausner

1 out of 1 people found this review helpful.

Great steamy read...

Fun book. Some twists and plenty of hot blooded action. Read it in one setting.

Not to bad

Just found that there was way too much sex in this book , almost got boring after awhile. But the story keep my interest,

Dark and Intriguing

Jamie Kincaid, in a state of grief over the murder of her cousin Nate, sets out for Wisconsin, in search of Nate¿s old friend Dillon Gaynor, hoping he can provide answers regarding Nate¿s death, which coincidently, happened at Dillon¿s home. Prodded along by adoptive mother Isobel, and instructed not to return home until she obtains information Isobel so badly wants, Jamie seemingly has no choice other than to remain at Dillon¿s, and the game begins. Dillon¿s hostility is apparent from the get go. This leaves the reader wondering if all the strange occurrences taking place are Dillon playing predatory games to scare Jamie off, and if not, what else could possible be going on here? As the plot thickens, Dillon, Nate and Jamie¿s past is revealed through flashbacks, and we begin to understand why Jamie is unable to walk away from the sensual sparks flying between her and perpetual bad boy Dillon. Bits and pieces of Dillon¿s dark side are revealed, leaving you to further wonder if the bad boy has reformed or been lead further down the road to vengeance. Anne Stuart provides another dark, erotic, and compelling suspense story. Dillon Gaynor is truly one of her darkest bad boys, and we are left wondering who ¿ or what - he really has become until the end of the book. This is not a pretty story, the characters are flawed, the plot twisted, but this author delivers again what she does so well. Not a story for the faint of heart!

great story, very original

Anne Stuart really stands out from other romance authors. She deviates from the standard, traditional romances and gives the characters more edge. I really enjoyed reading Into the Fire, it's very different from most of the books out there. Dillon Gaynor is ultrasexy, and Jamie Kinkaid was a great match for him. Another great book by Anne Stuart. I recommend all her other books, she's really a jewel in the romance industry.

Straight Razor Edge tense story

Into the Fire is a tight erotic suspense story. It will keep you on edge all the way through. Ms. Stuart's once a year contemporary suspense stories are looked forward to by some of us the way a child looks forward to Santa Clause at Christmas.

Great Read

I was surprised to find this book so good after reading another review. the author details the book so you feel like you are actually in the scene with the characters. I enjoyed reading this book and look foward to reading it again

0 out of 1 people found this review helpful.

Riveting

One of the best yet most chilling romantic suspense novels I've picked up in a long time. This one gave me a serious case of the creeps but I found Jamie and Dillon so engaging that I couldn't put the book down. Their relationship is shrouded in darkness and danger and loaded with erotic sexual tension. Not for the faint of heart! I disagree with the Publisher Weekley's comment on Dillon forcing Jamie into having sex with him, I didn't see that scene as rape at all. Granted, he's no teddy bear but Jamie is well aware of that and what she is getting into with him and could have walked away if she chose to, she didn't. She had the guts to both stay and face not only him but her inner demons as well. The ending was well written suited both characters perfectly, an unforgettable read.

Great book

You feel so sorry about poor girl that lost her shoes money and handbag your heart goes out to her. When she meet child hood old friend that not a real friend

Smutty, instead of romantic

A year after learning of her beloved cousin's death in an apparent drug deal gone amiss, Jamie is sent to find answers by her aunt on a quest that will lead her face to face with the man who found Nate's body, Dillon Gaynor. The two have a highly charged history dating back twelve years to when she was an innocent, but he has always been a bad boy. .............. The tension between them is charged with a sexual energy that is palpable, and though they fight and snipe at each other to avoid it, they can not ignore what is between them. Yet even as they hover around each other, a vengeful 'ghost' watches, bent on revenge. .......... ** In a blend of Stephen King and Anne Rice, this novel attempts to widen Ms. Stuart's audience in a steamy tale with no redeeming characters or qualities. Instead of romantic, it comes off as smutty, overriding what could be a genuinely suspenseful story to become nothing more than a nearly pornographic semi-horror story. **

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