Reviewed by Kat
TITLE: Accidental Fire
SERIES: The Road to Rocktoberfest 2025
AUTHOR: Sam E Kraemer
PUBLISHER: Kaye Klub Publishing
LENGTH: 243 pages
RELEASE DATE: October 13, 2025
BLURB:
Who’s gonna catch River when he runs amok? Maybe a burly truck driver who wants nothing to do with a young, wild, hard-headed rockstar?
River Ashe, lead guitarist for Accidental Fire, seems to run into trouble when his band is on the road without his famous father, Regal Ashe, or his brother, Skyler, who has returned to West Peoria, choosing the small-town life with his former football player husband, Sandy. Without Skyler around to be his conscience, River succumbs to the pitfalls of being twenty-one with no one to stop him from stumbling into trouble.
Christopher “Kit” Hansen, an over-the-road truck driver, is requested to be the equipment transport operator for Accidental Fire. Kit isn’t thrilled with the idea of signing on with a baby rock band on their first major tour. When the head of the band’s record label contacts him personally and asks for a favor—and adds a sweetener to the deal if Kit will quasi-babysit the band—Kit decides the headaches might be worth the drama.
But Kit doesn’t expect a brown-haired, blue-eyed gorgeous guitar player to steal his heart on this rock-and-roll odyssey. Will River’s youthful exuberance for performing in front of a live audience and his unending curiosity to experience everything that gets him into trouble be more drama than Kit is willing to tolerate? Will Kit’s strict rules provide the boundaries River’s seeking, or will River run in the opposite direction?
The boys are back in the multi-author Road to Rocktoberfest 2025 series. Each book can be read as a standalone, but why not read them all and see if some of your past favorites poke their heads—err…voices—in. Hot rockstars, stolen kisses, drywall repairs, and the men who drive them over the edge. What more could you ask for? Kick back, load up your e-readers, and enjoy the men of Rocktoberfest!
REVIEW:
Who’s ready to ROCK!!! I have been salivating waiting for The Road to Rocktoberfest 2026 to roll in and now I’m rockin’ it hard!!!
River Ashe, Skyler’s younger half-brother, and his band Accidental Fire have made it to the bigger leagues. They are setting out on a tour the record company, that they are signed with, had put together. Marshall is along to help them with the tour but he seems to be MIA a lot!!! Nathan Ashby, president of Sound Wave Studios, has asked his nephew, Kit Hansen, to be the truck driver hauling the band’s equipment. When Accidental Fire’s first show is such a bust, because the band was too stoned to make any kind of decent music, and the audience left without wanting an encore, Nathan asks River to please keep an eye on those young boys. They had so much raw talent and potential but were sabotaging themselves at every moment. But can a thirty-five year old confirmed straight bachelor truck driver keep a group of early twenty-something rockers in line and focused on their career over partying? And what is with the sudden appeal of twenty-one year old River that has his engines revving?
I absolutely loved that Author Sam E. Kramer didn’t automatically rush these two men into wild sex every moment from the beginning. It wouldn’t have worked for me. Kit had absolutely no clue that he even had any attraction to men. But River made him sit up and analyze why he was feeling stirrings for the beautiful young man. And, with little to no experience with either man, it simply wouldn’t have worked for me. River had only topped once and Kit hadn’t ever even kissed a man. Plus, he hadn’t been all that that active with women either. At least he had had anal once with a woman. I do have to say that my phone got sprayed with Gatorade when I read that tidbit! 😜 I was also grateful that the author had River sit down with JD and that he had someone he could confide in and ask questions. JD’s relationship with a man, that was a side, was what River needed to hear. That not all relationships need penetrative sex to succeed. That an honest relationship was based on the partners preference and not just about wetting the wick as the old saying goes. How they expressed themselves when making love had to be mutually agreed upon and desired. The author broached this part of their budding relationship with thought and care. And I truly appreciated it. She didn’t have them rushing into this without communication and thought.
I am really hoping that this book is the beginning of a brand-new series. Accidental Fire was a great way to move into the other members of the band. We already know that JD is bi. And we know that Arlo was intimate with his former girlfriend but look at Kit. He was thirty-five and had no idea that he was at least bi until he met River!
I loved that River realized one special thing in the end, that Kit was my fire, and it was no accident. Because these two were made for each other!
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