Ride the Fire
2005
- fiction, romance, historical
- western romance
- frontier and pioneer life fiction
The story
Pregnant and alone on the wild frontier, a woman must decide whether to allow a wounded, buckskin-clad stranger into her cabin--and eventually into her heart.
What it’s like
Quiet, wind-scoured frontier prose, with the sensory world carried by close third-person detail: woodsmoke in a small cabin, the cold of a winter morning, the weight of a rifle and the smell of leather and horses. The voice is earnest and emotionally direct, moving between the hushed interior of a homestead and the open, unforgiving land around it. Its vibe is tender and slow-building, with a steady undercurrent of wariness that softens as the two leads learn to trust each other. It suits a rainy Sunday under a blanket, a comfort reread, or an evening when a settled, old-fashioned romance is what you want. Pacing is unhurried, with long stretches of domestic routine and conversation punctuated by moments of danger and injury. The romance is central and carries sensual content, with heat that is fairly explicit but not graphic in every beat. Violence is present, mostly in the backstory and in a few sharp scenes of gunfire and wounds, and it lands as serious rather than gory. Recommended for readers who love historical western romance, a pregnant heroine who is not helpless, and a rugged hero who shows his care through action rather than speeches.
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