Melanie Kincaid is a trust-fund baby with a knack for sassy comebacks and unnecessarily complicating her privileged life. So, of course she would have to fall in love with a man she can't have.
Jameson Hayes is a NYC firefighter for Manhattan’s oldest ladder company with big shoes to fill and a city to protect. He’s strong, sexy, and not looking for the complications Melanie brings. But he can't stay away from her either. The attraction between them is immediate and the pull between them is crazy powerful. But she's only home for the summer and long-distance relationships never work.
Unfortunately, Melanie’s beauty and smart mouth are a lethal combination and Jameson isn't the only Hayes who's interested. As if his brother isn't enough to compete with, now the city's most famous arsonist wants to claim her as his next prize. Jameson can't stand to watch Melanie get hurt and she can't seem to keep herself out of trouble.
Fall for Me is the first Ladder Company novel, a stand-alone companion series about New York's most elite firefighting family with hot alpha heroes, snarky heroines, and an arsonist hell-bent on destruction.
“Every time you think
about me you touch your necklace.” His eyes fall from mine to the gold wishbone
that hangs from my neck and rests against the hollow at the base of my throat.
I remove my hand from my necklace. I don’t even realize I’m doing it half the
time. I could lie, that I’m not thinking about him, but he wouldn’t believe me.
“You hear my voice and you
touch it,” he says slowly with a soft smile that creeps up on his lips. “You
see me walk by and you touch it.”
“And we’re friends,” I
say, reminding both of us of this fact.
“Kind of hard to be
friends when one of us is refusing to participate,” he says.
“This is stupid. We’re
attracted to each other, but we’ve chosen not to do something about it. I’m
going back to New Orleans until graduation and you’re stuck in a lease with
Miss Cranky Pants. That’s our lives and every time you start being all Mr.
Gorgeous, you make it hard for me to remember that.”
His shoulders shake as he
laughs, looking carefree for the first time in over a week, and he breathes
deeply as he calms himself. “Miss Cranky Pants, that’s a good one.”
I don’t even have the
decency to be embarrassed for letting my nickname for Lydia slip in front of
him. It’s bad enough I said it in front of Roy, his dad, who’s now using it on
an almost exclusive basis. Thankfully, Jameson doesn’t call me on referring to
him as Mr. Gorgeous.
“I want to be your friend
but we need boundaries,” I say. I don’t really want friendship, but I’ll take
what I can get.
“List your demands and
I’ll list mine.”
There are plenty of sexy fireman in this series! Their is a suspense element kept me hooked, but ended rather abruptly without providing any answers as the the reason or identity behind the incidents. I understand that as it will continue to develop in the upcoming books. Jameson and Melanie spend over half of the book fighting their feelings, and then once they are able to act on them, neither one has the balls to do something about it - until Melanie's life is threatened. Overall an emotional NA with lots of tension between the characters. Looking forward to the next installment.
ARC received in exchange for an honest review.
As a child, JC was fascinated by things that went bump in the night. As they say, some things never change. Now, as an adult, she divides her time between the sexy law men, mythical creatures, and kick-ass heroines that live inside her head and pursuing her bachelor's degree in English. JC is a San Francisco Bay Area native, but has also called both Texas and Louisiana home. These days she rocks her flip flops year round in Northern California and can't imagine a climate more beautiful.
JC writes adult, new adult, and young adult fiction. She dabbles in many different genres including science fiction, horror, chick lit, and murder mysteries, yet she is most enthralled by supernatural stories-- and everything has at least a splash of romance.
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