Macey Locke and Derek Severson grew up together and their mothers run a business together. Macey has long had a crush on Derek that has fully moved from the little girl crush to a full out want to get down and dirty and think of forever after type of lust.

Derek for his part never really looked at Macey in that way. In fact as time went on he grew up became a firefighter, and fell in love with a different person. However, fate played a cruel trick on Derek, and Julie, the woman Derek was planning to propose to was killed in a fire that Derek was fighting.

Now Macey and Derek's moms think that Macey can pull Derek from his self imposed exile on San Amaro Island and get him back to the land of the living. It's a big job and one that Macey feels up to especially since she just spent several years being part of the Peace Corps...but is getting through to Derek harder than helping third world countries?

I really enjoyed PLAYING WITH FIRE and seeing how Macey uses her business skills versus her feminine wiles. Ms. Knupp wrote interesting secondary characters such as Andie the bar cook, and Gus the former bar owner, whom I wouldn't mind seeing more of in the future books of this trilogy.

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