Playing With Fire by Gemma Brocato

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Playing With Fire by Gemma Brocato
A Five Senses novella
Every day is filled with conferences, obligations, and disciplinary meetings for Assistant Principal Sarah Willis.

When a student is sent to her office, a confrontation with his father, the new fire marshal in Granite Pointe, doesn’t extinguish her instant attraction to the man.

When his son gets into trouble at school, Cris Bayfield discovers he’s hot for teacher.

His interest in Sarah goes beyond parent-teacher conferences, but her artistic side and his past history could spell doom for any potential relationship.

When the theatrical director for the high school play resigns unexpectedly, Sarah has to step in as the understudy, throwing her in Cris’s path on a regular basis. As they spend more and more time together, her resolve to not get involved with a parent goes up in flames.

Genre: Contemporary Romance
Content/Theme(s): Firefighter, Art, School principal, Small town
Release Date: November 16, 2015
Publisher: Indie

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Playing With Fire by Desiree Holt

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Playing With Fire by Desiree Holt
Sports reporter Cassie Fitzgerald is back home in Stoneham, Texas, scene of her sister’s murder and the place she lost her heart to hot, hot Griffin Hunter. Griff is hotter than ever and Cassie forgot—when you play with fire, you’re bound to get burned.

One hot summer Cassie Fitzgerald gave her virginity and her heart to Griffin Hunter. When he married her sister, Diane, she fled Stoneham and for six years nothing could make her return. Not her sister’s murder, for which Griffin was and continues to be the only suspect. Not her father’s suicide, which the police chief wants to sweep under the rug.

But now her mother is dead and she’s back home in Stoneham, Texas, assaulted by memories and battling resentment along with sadness. She has legal obligations she can’t avoid, responsibilities she wants to take care of and get the hell out of the place she ran from so long ago. And then there is Griff, the man whose hold on her heart has never slackened or eased. She wants to hold her hatred for him close to her but he wants to hold her body close to his. Despite everything that happened he wants her more than ever and makes no bones about it.

And damn it, she finds herself just as susceptible.

Together they begin to unravel the mysteries surrounding her sister’s murder and Griff’s implication in it. With each layer they peel back more secrets are revealed. As they work side by side will she be able to control her own hot need for this man or will she be pulled back into the same sensual vortex? Can she uncover the secret Stoneham’s hiding, the riddle of Diane’s murder and the answer to her relationship with Griff without destroying herself in the process?
Note: Originally published in November 2009 as Once Burned; it has been newly edited.

Genre: Western Romantic Suspense
Content/Theme(s): Cowboy, Contemporary
Release Date: October 29, 2015
Publisher: Decadent Publishing

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