Hawke

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Come on, baby, light my fire…

Firefighter Hawke Colton loves his job and hanging with his firefighter brothers. Work is great, but Hawke wants more. He yearns for a life with a husband, kids, a house, even a dog. What he craves is a real family, something he never got to experience growing up.

Fire Investigator Tristan Cole lost his parents to an arsonist twenty-one years ago. That tragedy changed his life forever. He’s built his career on putting arsonists away, and he is still searching for the person responsible for his parents’ death.

When a family is killed in a suspicious fire, Tristan knows the signature of the offender all too well. To prove it’s the same arsonist, he asks Hawke for help combing through the old files. He is determined to get justice by uncovering what lurks beneath the ashes.

When the arsonist sets his sights on Tristan, can Hawke find a way to keep his new love safe?

Review

 It was a pleasant surprise to see that the characters in this story are somewhat related to those of the Federal Protection Agency series.

In this we see the story of Hawk who is a firefighter, and Tristan who also works in the fire department, but as an investigator. Tristan suffers from PTSD due to a traumatic episode during his childhood / adolescence, and has made it his life's mission to catch the person responsible for the death of his parents.

Following clues found in the latest fires, he ends up working with Hawk and sparks immediately flare between them.

The relationship between the characters develops quite fast and intense, since the time frame of this book is, at most, a week, still it is not a negative thing, since this is a short story and not too deep.

The discovery of the arsonist seemed a bit anticlimactic to me. The description suggests that the person responsible for the fires “takes an interest in Tristan”, which led me to believe that said person would persecute the characters in some way, but no. It was like that, in fact the person responsible appears only after it has been discovered…

As always, it was a read that I quite enjoyed and actually got me out of the little reading block I was in.