Controlled Burn by Lani Lynn Vale

Title: Controlled Burn

Series: Kilgore Fire #4

Author: Lani Lynn Vale

Genre: Romantic Suspense

Release Date: October 5, 2016 Cover Model: Shane Williams Photographer: Furious Fotog 

July Dupree and Dean ‘PD’ Hargrove fell head over heels in love. When PD comes home to tell July the good news about joining the SWAT team as a tactical medic, everything changes.

July can’t fathom why PD would want to be a cop in this day and age. Wasn’t it enough that he already had a dangerous job with the fire department? Now he has to add another, even more dangerous, job to the equation? With so many cruel people in the world who make a sport out of hurting cops just because of the badge they wear, she has to make him understand. But when he refuses to listen to her reasoning, she feels she has no other choice but to issue an ultimatum: her or the SWAT team.

Dean doesn’t like ultimatums. He’s furious with July for putting him in the awful position of having to choose between a dream and her.

July never believes for a second that he’d choose the SWAT team over her, but she is wrong.

A year later, they’re both still in love with each other, but neither one is willing to budge regardless of their feelings.

July’s feelings for Dean haven’t changed, in fact her love for him has only grown. But seeing him living his life seemingly unaffected by the loss of what they had breaks her heart over and over each time she sees him.

Dean has a good poker face, though. He’s just going through the motions of his life until finally, the smoldering embers of his feelings erupt into a full-on blaze of emotion, burning through everything but his love for July. When the smoke clears, Dean wants to know if they can reignite the fire of their love or is he destined to live his life in a constant state of controlled burn?

 

I’m a married mother of three. My kids are all under 5, so I can assure you that they are a handful. I’ve been with my paramedic husband now for ten years, and we’ve produced three offspring that are nothing like us. I live in the greatest state in the world, Texas.  

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You'll feel the burn in this book alright! We meet two stubborn and controlling people, Dean and July. They each have to have their own type of control and when Dean turns her world upside down by choosing the SWAT team over her she is devastated. He may have just made the worst decision of his life. 

A year has passed and the feelings do not go away they get stronger. July has a hard time covering it up while Dean does an awesome job of hiding just how he really feels. A few turn of events lead them to try again to make their relationship work. Just when they pick up where they left off a major fire bomb is thrown at us. I don't know who to feel more sorry for Dean or Wolfe (July's brother) with the events that transpired. 

You will be on the edge of your seat waiting to find out two outcomes and as you read you will feel the devastation, the tears and anger that occurred in this story. All I can really say without wanting to say so much more is that two miracles truly happened in this book. This story is intense and will have you wanting to finish this in one sitting and then wanting to watch the movie, "Rocky". Go Adrienne!  hehe

This may be part of a series, but you do not have to read this book to understand this story though. I am very anxious to read about Wolfe though cause that is going to be one tragic story from the events we already know about.