Reviewed by Dan
TITLE: The Fire
SERIES: Love in O’Leary – Book 4
AUTHOR: May Archer
PUBLISHER: Self-Published
LENGTH: 334 pages
RELEASE DATE: July 19, 2019
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Jameson Burke is the most arrogant, infuriating human on the planet. He’s also taller, broader, and impossibly hotter than he was before I left town.
For ten years, I dreamed of coming back to O’Leary to open my own bar. Safe to say the reality hasn’t lived up to my expectations. Even though the town’s the same as it ever was — same beautiful scenery, same wonderful, ridiculous residents — it’s hard to feel welcome when your first love and childhood best friend makes it clear you’re public enemy number one. And then, oh yeah, when your bar burns to the ground and you’re stuck begging for a place to stay.
But just when I’m ready to give up on the dream entirely, Jamie and I are thrown together in a blizzard and everything changes. One single, scorching night is enough to prove the spark between us never really died, and suddenly I’m dreaming a new dream — one where Jamie lets go of the past and we build something entirely new… together.
REVIEW:
If you are following my reviews, you will know that this is the fourth book in this series that I’ve reviewed, and I think that these two characters might be my favorites of the series so far.
In The Fire we focus on Jamie and Parker, high school sweethearts who broke up because one wanted the other to have more in life that living in O’Leary with him and his dead end job and prospects.
It is now years later, and Parker is back and has his own bar. The only problem he faces on a regular basis is Jamie showing up drunk and being belligerent. The two are usually pitted head to head in arguments. Any of you who’ve read along with me on the previous books will remember that Parker’s bar actually burned down in one of the previous books, but as all the stories in this series seem to run concurrently, we’re back to that occurrence. Parker realizes that his first lash out at Jamie blaming him for burning the place down wasn’t true, but the insurance adjuster who is there to investigate the fire feels that someone started it and he isn’t giving up on his investigation.
Parker finally gives up and decides to leave town and move to Arizona to live with his parents. But on his way out of town in the middle of rapidly accelerating blizzard, his car slides off the same crooked road that Everett crashed on in book one and this time the knight in shining armor that comes along is Jamie. Could life get any worse for Parker?
The only option is for the two men to go to Jamie’s house and wait out the blizzard. You can take it from there.
I think you’ll really enjoy this one. I liked how Ms. Archer showed us snippets of the two men’s history like she always does in this series, and how she tied the two men’s lives together in a way that kept me reading right through to the end of the book again!
Again, I have to say that I highly recommend the entire series.
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