Title: All I Need
Series: The Rockford Fire Department #5
Author: Kathryn Shay
Genre: Contemporary Romance/Suspense
Release Date: May 8, 2018
He's a fire chief who curses out the mayor at every turn. She's the mayor who needs him in a crisis.
He's a line firefighter attracted to the mayor's daughter. She's a woman who wants nothing to do with a man like him.
Chief Chase Talbot has butted heads with Mayor Vanessa Jordan since she was elected to office two years ago. And since he's the head of the fire department, she's his boss. Still, he takes no grief from her. But after a fire involving her parents, Vanessa turns to Chase for help. When the situation calms down, both are unable to get their relationship back to what it was. Throw in troubled teens, estrangement from family, a possible arson and you get a complex, gripping plotline and an emotional and scintillating love story.
Interweaved with Chase and Vanessa's lives is Joe Santori, the young, brash and immature firefighter of book one. Now Joe is a wiser, more settled lieutenant running his own crew. When Holly Michaels, a fourth grade teacher, and the mayor's daughter, moves into the condo next to his, she intrigues him. But Holly doesn't want to get involved: Joe is worldly, gorgeous and way out of her league. The problem is, he doesn't think so. These young people go on a rollercoaster ride of emotional highs and lows, but even after they give into their passion, the old Joe resurfaces and Holly's having none of it.
It comes as a shock to both couples that contrary to what each thought, they don't have all they need!
Cameo appearances of readers' favorite firefighters from Hidden Cove, as well as Shay's trademark tense and nail-biting rescue scenes, sizzling sexual encounters, and emotions exploding on every page, this book will pull you in and not let go until the characters find their way back to each other.
If you haven't read the first four books of The Rockford Fire Department, be sure to grab FEEL THE HEAT, RISKING IT ALL, CODE OF HONOR and NEVER FAR AWAY, all intense firefighter romance books.
*** NEW YORK TIMES bestselling author Kathryn Shay spent five years riding fire trucks with a large city fire department, eating in their firehouses and interviewing hundreds of America's Bravest.
4 Stars
All I need is the fifth title in the Rockford Fire Department series, and features two couples at different points I their lives, endeavouring to find success, romance and a happy ever after.
Vanessa is Rockford's mayor and Chase is the Fire Chief. This pair are like oil and water, and any relationship between them is forbidden, due to their respective roles. As much as they rub each other the wrong way this pair are drawn together, their banter is witty and often argumentative. Their connection and chemistry is full of heat and passion despite their very different personalities and ideals.
Holly is Vanessa's estranged daughter and she is drawn to fireman Joe, who also happens to be her neighbor. Holly has trust issues and Joe's a bit of a player, so they have their work cut out for them to find a middle ground. They may be opposites, and have a tendency to push each other away at every hurdle, but are inexplicably drawn back to each other.
This is a story of forgiveness, and learning to trust again.
For anyone who is familiar with previous titles and series' several familiar characters make an appearance within this story line.
Overall an engaging and entertaining story with a touch of intrigue and suspense, that kept me enthralled and turning pages. I will look forward to future titles in the series.
A NEW YORK TIMES and USA TODAY bestselling author, Kathryn Shay has been a lifelong writer and teacher. She has written dozens of self-published original romance titles, print books with the Berkley Publishing Group and Harlequin Enterprises, and mainstream women’s fiction with Bold Strokes Books. She has won five RT Book Reviews awards, four Golden Quills, four Holt Medallions, the Bookseller’s Best Award, Foreword Magazine’s Book of the Year, and several “Starred Reviews.” Her novels have been serialized in COSMOPOLITAN magazine and featured in USA TODAY, THE WALL STREET JOURNAL, and PEOPLE magazine. There are over seven million copies of her books in print, along with three million downloaded online. Reviewers have called her work “emotional and heart-wrenching.”
