Inferno
BIG CITY CRIME. SMALL TOWN HEROES
An epic finale.
Detective Samantha Jesse is determined to hold on to what she has. Whenever she gets too happy, life corrects that mistake and takes the joy from her. Her new partner, Detective Romeo Alvarez, was there the day of the biggest correction, but despite his assertions, that doesn't mean they're forever connected. Unless her worst fears come true and he changes his ways because he fell in love at first sight with her sister, Bristol. As if Samantha needs that complication in her quiet life.

A love rekindled.
Fire Department Captain Julio Espinoza-Vasquez has never let go of the love of his life.

Raised by deaf parents, he sees the world in ways no one else around him ever will. And he'll put it all on the line to protect his colleagues-the family that the department has given him. When a spate of suspicious fires and one death make it clear something is happening in Benson, Julio lands on an inter-department task force. Working with Samantha is his one shot at getting her back.

As the hunt for the arsonist turns to targeted attacks, Julio puts it all on the line to save Samantha while she investigates these deadly crimes. Only together can they uncover the culprit.

But not before Benson becomes an inferno.
Each Benson First Responders book is a stand-alone Christian Romantic Suspense.
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Inferno
BIG CITY CRIME. SMALL TOWN HEROES
An epic finale.
Detective Samantha Jesse is determined to hold on to what she has. Whenever she gets too happy, life corrects that mistake and takes the joy from her. Her new partner, Detective Romeo Alvarez, was there the day of the biggest correction, but despite his assertions, that doesn't mean they're forever connected. Unless her worst fears come true and he changes his ways because he fell in love at first sight with her sister, Bristol. As if Samantha needs that complication in her quiet life.

A love rekindled.
Fire Department Captain Julio Espinoza-Vasquez has never let go of the love of his life.

Raised by deaf parents, he sees the world in ways no one else around him ever will. And he'll put it all on the line to protect his colleagues-the family that the department has given him. When a spate of suspicious fires and one death make it clear something is happening in Benson, Julio lands on an inter-department task force. Working with Samantha is his one shot at getting her back.

As the hunt for the arsonist turns to targeted attacks, Julio puts it all on the line to save Samantha while she investigates these deadly crimes. Only together can they uncover the culprit.

But not before Benson becomes an inferno.
Each Benson First Responders book is a stand-alone Christian Romantic Suspense.
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Inferno

Inferno

by Lisa Phillips

Narrated by Chloe Pfeiffer

Unabridged — 6 hours, 58 minutes

Inferno

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BIG CITY CRIME. SMALL TOWN HEROES
An epic finale.
Detective Samantha Jesse is determined to hold on to what she has. Whenever she gets too happy, life corrects that mistake and takes the joy from her. Her new partner, Detective Romeo Alvarez, was there the day of the biggest correction, but despite his assertions, that doesn't mean they're forever connected. Unless her worst fears come true and he changes his ways because he fell in love at first sight with her sister, Bristol. As if Samantha needs that complication in her quiet life.

A love rekindled.
Fire Department Captain Julio Espinoza-Vasquez has never let go of the love of his life.

Raised by deaf parents, he sees the world in ways no one else around him ever will. And he'll put it all on the line to protect his colleagues-the family that the department has given him. When a spate of suspicious fires and one death make it clear something is happening in Benson, Julio lands on an inter-department task force. Working with Samantha is his one shot at getting her back.

As the hunt for the arsonist turns to targeted attacks, Julio puts it all on the line to save Samantha while she investigates these deadly crimes. Only together can they uncover the culprit.

But not before Benson becomes an inferno.
Each Benson First Responders book is a stand-alone Christian Romantic Suspense.

Editorial Reviews

BookLife Reviews

10/14/2024

The ninth, and final, installment in Phillips’s Benson First Responders series, after Duplicity, centers on Detective Samantha “Sam” Jesse and Fire Captain Julio Espinoza-Vasquez, a deeply wounded former couple struggling to repair their relationship after a terrible tragedy at work caused Sam’s miscarriage two years ago. Thrown back together in a united hunt for a cunning serial arsonist—who’s recreating crime scenes identical to those that Richard Sylvana, currently behind bars serving a lengthy sentence, orchestrated 20 years ago—the pair quickly realize that the past, and their feelings for each other, are far from dead.

Phillips digs into love, obsession, religion, and healing in this blistering story that teems with unresolved hurt and grief, in the midst of a chilling—and dangerous—murder mystery. Sam’s sister, Bristol, is an upbeat addition to the cast, a vivacious, fiercely independent deaf woman—“dynamite wrapped in a delicate exterior”—who flirts through her cadre of admirers while waiting for “the one,” and Sam quickly realizes that her womanizing new partner, Romeo Alvarez, may be itching to fill that role. Sam tries her best to protect Bristol, while nursing her own broken heart and vacillating between her obsession with Julio and a stubborn refusal to revisit their past in revolving romance scenes that sometimes overwhelm the pair’s joint investigation.

Apart from Phillips’s well-crafted, and unnerving, arsonist events, the most intriguing part of this novel falls to Bristol and Sam’s engaging give-and-take, made even more appealing by the organic use of sign language that filters through the story. Transitions from the central crime mystery to the novel’s romance tend to be abrupt, and readers may be disappointed that Sam often defaults to needing a man to rescue her, but, still, the action is tense and the mystery adrenaline-charged, making the chase—and the story’s frantic ending—worth it.

Takeaway: First responders rekindle romance while hunting a serial arsonist.

Comparable Titles: Betta Ferrendelli’s Point of Origin, Ace Atkins's Robert B. Parker’s Slow Burn.

Production grades Cover: A- Design and typography: A Illustrations: N/A Editing: A- Marketing copy: A

Product Details

BN ID: 2940192329726
Publisher: Recorded Books, LLC
Publication date: 11/12/2024
Series: Benson First Responders , #9
Edition description: Unabridged
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