Where Fire Meets Flame by Elena Kincaid
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

Where Fire Meets Flame

Riley is a private investigator. While working on a case for Jane Wilson, she had hidden herself in a warehouse. Chad Wilson was having an affair with a woman. Riley captured everything on camera with a date and time stamp for evidence. She sent a text message and a picture to Jane. While attempting to put her camera away, she was hit in the head. When Riley woke up, she realized the warehouse was on fire. A man picked her up and ran, managing to escape the fire while waiting under a metal desk in the basement. When he spoke, Riley immediately recognized him.Tristan had met Riley nine months ago. He knew he wanted to get to know her better, but resolved to make sure Shannon understood their relationship was over. Shannon, however, refused to leave. After going to the coffeehouse several weeks in a row, Riley offered for him to join her at a table. He had to go back to work. He offered a raincheck and left when Shannon entered and made a scene. She had followed him. He told her they were over, but she refused to listen. She bombarded him with calls and even made one sound like a threat. She even called his sister, his mother, and his best friend, James. Tristan filed a restraining order.A catastrophic car wreck occurred, and Tristan found Riley among the mangled vehicles. He got her out and into an ambulance, where he told her he wouldn’t leave her side. Riley passed out, and when she woke up at the hospital, she was in a room that had a sheet for the wall. She could hear a woman crying to a nurse about her sister dying. Less than ten minutes later, Tristan was told Riley had died. As Riley recovered from her injuries, she didn’t see or hear from Tristan.Now involved in a warehouse fire, Tristan realizes he had been misinformed, and Riley finds he hadn’t abandoned her intentionally.

This isn’t a long book, but it held the elements needed to be intense in all the right places. Riley and Tristan were both attracted to each other, but Shannon was keeping them apart. Shannon had a crazy girlfriend stalker painted all over her. The desperation to hold on to a man that she had only been on dates with for less than two months is astounding. I could understand Riley and Tristan being shocked to find each other during the fire. Despite the darker side of the book, there are several times I couldn’t help laughing at some things Riley and her friend Terrance said and did. When Riley hired Terrance, he fired her other secretary by walking up to her desk and stating he was the new office assistant. He then told her she was being let go. He even interfered with her confronting Riley by claiming she was extremely busy. Riley had hired him less than five minutes earlier. I have read another book by Elena Kincaid, and she is a talented writer. I look forward to reading many more of her novels in the future.

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