Five Alarm Christmas by Cassie Cole

My rating: 5 of 5 stars

Don’t sleep with your teammates.
It was the one rule they emphasized to us ladies at the Fire Academy. The kind of rule that existed for a crucial reason. 
And it was an easy rule to follow… Until I got transferred to Miami Fire Station 47.

With just two weeks until Christmas, Firefighter Amy Pederson is transferred to a special new fire station in the suburbs of Miami. It’s a tremendous honor to have been selected out of hundreds of applicants, but Amy can’t help but feel like she doesn’t belong. 

And it only gets worse when she meets her three sexy unit mates, some of whom aren’t too thrilled to have a woman on their team. 

Yet as they take holiday calls together they begin bonding in ways only a close-knit group who risk their lives together can. Every time they throw on their gear and stride into the swirling smoke their petty differences seem silly by comparison—especially with rumors of a holiday arsonist plaguing Miami. 

But now Amy has the opposite problem: she and her new unit mates are beginning to like each other too much, a temptation that’s impossible to avoid while living with three delicious firefighter hunks. Can Amy douse her unrelenting feelings while searching for the arsonist, or will everything go up in smoke?

Five Alarm Christmas

Hot, in more ways than one!

The following ratings are out of 5:
Romance: 💙🖤💜❤️💖
Heat/Steam: 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
Story/Plot: 📕📗📙📘📔
World building: 🌏🌍🌎🌍🌎
Character development: 😟🤭😤😘🥰

The heroine: Amy – she is a firefighter in Miami, who is very good at her job. She loves to drive the big fire truck, loves helping people and everything about being a firefighter. She graduated second in her class at the firefighter’s academy in Maryland and is now the best firefighter at her large station in Miami. When other members of the team were off shift, she would stay to help out around the fire station, and exercised until every muscle was sore.

The Heroes: Christian, Angel & Sparks – firefighter’s that came from the same station and were being reassigned to the new Hialeah station. They had been a team of four, but their fourth, Brady wasn’t selected for the new station, and they were not happy about being split up. Though they were happy to see what a nice new station they would be living in.

The Story: The fire chief tells Amy that she has been assigned to the new station in Hialeah that is designed to only run during peak hours in 12-hour shifts with four people per shift. It is an honor to be chosen for the job and it wasn’t something Amy could say no to without limiting her career aspirations. Though she signed up for the placement over two years ago and now was more than happy where she was at. So, Amy agrees to the new position and gets ready to start her new job.

I have recently been loving Cassie Cole’s reverse harem romance books. Not only does she do a ton of research on every subject she writes about, but the world building and character development is terrific. Her descriptions are on point and her stories are just great. Add that to the fact that all of them are stand-alone books between 300 and 400 pages. You just couldn’t ask for more in a reverse harem romance.

This book was fantastic from the very beginning when it showed Amy driving the rig to a fire and then her partner at her old station going into a burning house and saving a woman and her baby. It was great how the fire was described and how detailed it was. For example, the fire started in the kitchen and was probably a grease fire so they couldn’t use just water from the hose hooked up to the fire hydrant or that would make the fire worse.

The story got so much better as it went on. There was arson, suspense and danger. There was romance, and camaraderie and fun. I just can’t say enough about the research Cassie does into her stories and how much all the detail adds to how interesting the stories get. If I had the money, I would buy all of her books right now and read them one after another, but I am stuck waiting for them to go on sale.

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