Spitfire in Love

by Isabelle Ronin

Overview

From the International Wattpad Phenomenon who brought over 200 million readers into the world of Chasing Red comes a new contemporary romance full of heat and a sweet addiction that is full of fire…

KARA

There he was with his piercing blue eyes and Lucifer black hair.

He was leaning against the wall, a lollipop in his mouth, hot as hell and twice as dangerous.

Kara Hawthorne never backs down, especially when it comes to protecting her family.

CAM

She looked so soft, harmless, like a pretty kitten, but she was as safe as a ticking time bomb.

My sweet, sweet Spitfire.

Cameron St. Laurent isn't intimidated by the feisty woman at his doorstep. And when she asks him for the impossible, Cameron knows just how to sweeten the deal…

The two combustible personalities are faced with unavoidable off-the-charts chemistry. But when Cam's dark past shows up, he'll have to slay his demons and lay himself on the line to win Kara, body and soul.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781492661962
Publisher:	Sourcebooks
Publication date:	05/28/2019
Pages:	416
Sales rank:	690,642
Product dimensions:	4.10(w) x 6.80(h) x 1.20(d)

About the Author

Isabelle Ronin is the author of Wattpad phenomenon Chasing Red. With over 180 million reads, Chasing Red was Wattpad’s top-read story of 2016. The story continues to attract one million reads per week. When she’s not writing, Isabelle can be found hanging out in bookstores, cafes, and whenever possible, the beach. Isabelle lives in Manitoba, Canada. Her stories can be found on Wattpad, www.wattpad.com/isabelleronin. You can follow her on Instagram and Twitter @isabelleronin

Editorial Reviews

"Spitfire in Love has angst, conflict, heat, tension, banter, and lots of anticipation. Isabelle Ronin created complicated characters and an engaging and compelling romance." — Harlequin Junkie

From the Publisher

2019-04-14
A classic new-adult story set on a college campus, where a beautiful, broken hero and a spunky heroine with trust issues can't resist each other.

Kara Hawthorne and Cameron St. Laurent are college students in Manitoba, Canada, whose paths cross when Kara's younger brother wrecks Cameron's motorcycle. Cameron is a varsity athlete who hides his wealthy background as closely as he does terrible secrets from his broken childhood: "There is a darkness lurking inside me.…I knew most people couldn't handle or accept the real me." Kara has an absentee mother but comes from an otherwise close-knit working-class family. She's never dated, preferring to stick to her goals, which require holding down multiple jobs while going to school full time. Cameron is gorgeous and sexually experienced, but he is intrigued by the guarded and "feisty" Kara, whose "jagged edges could cut like a chainsaw to wood." When she offers to have the bike repaired for free at her father's garage, he ups the ante by demanding she drive him around in the meantime. Ronin (Always Red, 2017, etc.) began writing serialized stories on a social media site, where a version of this novel was first published. A plot that might be right-sized in smaller chunks feels unnecessarily attenuated thanks to frequent emotional reversals and too many details of daily life. The book's strength is its depiction of the likably complex Kara and Cameron, both working through issues from their childhoods while trying to navigate the adult world in which they now find themselves. Although the ending is optimistic enough to please readers, a sequel to this chaste story is planned.

Ronin creates believable characters and puts them in a well-drawn social world. The effect of the typical high angst and emotional upheavals of new-adult fiction is blunted by an unnecessarily drawn-out romance plot.

Kirkus Reviews