My fingers are tingling. 3 intertwined stories of 3 women who fulfill their fantasites and the fantasies of their firefighter men. HOT ( )

**Courtesy of CK2S Kwips & Kritiques**

Could anything be hotter than a hunky fireman head over heels in love? Yep. How about THREE hunky firemen head over heels in love?? Cathryn Fox delivers the goods in her novel The Hot Line, releasing March 4, 2008. This collection of sensual romances revolving around a firehouse in Chicago is just the thing to usher in the warmer months this spring!

This particular firehouse has a special number for women looking for a night of unforgettable passion with a fireman ready and willing to fulfill their fondest fantasies. But three firemen in particular stoke the blaze a lot hotter when they turn up the heat on the women of their dreams!

~Fever~

Working for a small town paper back in Trenton, Iowa is hardly the stuff a reporter’s dreams are made of. When Sara Jack is given the exclusive number for The Hot Line, she knows she has stumbled into a career-making story that will guarantee her a job at a big Chicago newspaper. It’s all about the story – that’s the only reason she is calling The Hot Line. Yeah, right…

Mitch Adams is a no-strings attached playboy, good for a fling but not into relationships. That’s the warning Sara’s friend Cassie gives her concerning the sexy firefighter. Suddenly, nothing sounds better than an out of town fling with none other than Mitch himself, and The Hot Line is her ticket to a night of pleasure she is sure Mitch can deliver on. But flings have a way of becoming so much more when you least expect it…

Although I loved all of the men in The Hot Line, I think that Mitch Adams is my favorite. Maybe it is the whole misunderstood bad boy who has just never found the right woman thing he has going on, but he totally got to me. He may be a playboy at first, but that certainly all seems to change for him the moment he lays eyes on charming small town girl, Sara.

And what isn’t there to like about Sara? Although delightfully guileless, she doesn’t hesitate at participation in some very sexy role playing games with the hunky fireman of her dreams, showing him she is more than eager to fulfill his own fantasies – something that takes him very much by surprise.

With their easy banter and inventive role-playing, this couple entertains us with a fun and light-hearted romance that made me giggle more than once. But don’t let those giggles fool you – there is more than enough heat to go along with those laughs in this hot little story!

~Sirens~

Jenna Powers has come a long way from the chubby little girl with braces she used to be to a beautiful and talented lingerie designer with her own budding business. Scheduled to do an important lingerie show by her friend Cassie, things turn disastrous when her model falls ill at the very last minute. With no available stand-in, things turn even more disastrous – Jenna must model her lingerie personally.

The only thing going right is that the sexy fireman she’s been fantasizing about left before the show started. If she has to make a fool out of herself, at least it won’t be in front of Dean Beckman…

Dean can hardly believe his eyes when he returns from a liquor run to find Jenna modeling a Siren-red negligee in front of a room full of people! He’s been dreaming of seeing the buxom beauty in the lingerie she designs, but never thought he would have the chance. But Dean is never one to let an opportunity slip by him…

I said earlier in this review that Mitch was my favorite, but Dean Beckman sure did give him a run for his money! With a unique blend of subtle dominance and sensitivity heightened by his psychology studies, Dean is quick to recognize Jenna’s physical insecurities and resolves to see her through them. Refusing to let her hide from either him or herself, he forces her to see herself through his eyes, to feel her own beauty and femininity, giving her a gift as precious as his love – self-confidence.

What woman has never experience insecurities similar to those that prey on Jenna’s confidence? Having spent her youth overweight and teased by her classmates, she has never shaken the image of herself as frumpy, even though her looks have certainly grown out of that description. Although uncertain at first, she follows Dean’s lead and allows him to employ a rather unorthodox method of changing her self-image…

Once they work past her issues, they embark on some very steamy love scenes guaranteed to set off sparks worthy of any five-alarm fire!

~Flash Fire~

Sous Chef Megan Wagner has a way of speaking before thinking, and what she is usually thinking about these days is the hotter than hot firefighter Brady Wade. Brady, in turn, has a way of turning her words and the situation to their mutual advantage in the sexiest of ways…

But Brady isn’t out for a quick romp, he wants forever with the sassy little cook. Convincing divorcee Megan he is nothing like her deadbeat ex-husband is going to take some work, but he has cooked up a plan guaranteed to sweep her off her feet…

The third story in Ms. Fox’s The Hot Line is perhaps one of the most poignant. Here is a woman who, having been burned badly before, is afraid to trust in love again. Too many of us can identify with Megan on this score. Although afraid to open herself up emotionally, it does not prevent her from enjoying a little one on one with Brady, which is just the first step in his multi-layered plan to slip past her defenses.

Doing for others comes naturally for Brady, and doing for Megan is more than his pleasure. And that is his secret weapon to showing Megan how completely opposite he is from her ex, who expected everything to be done for him.

In the end, Megan realizes what Brady is offering and is surprised to find herself eager and ready to take him up on it – a loving partnership of equals in a give and take relationship that has all it needs to go the distance.

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