Book Freak: New Release | Flirting with Fire by Piper Rayne

Flirting With Fire

(Blue Collar Brothers #1)

By Piper Rayne

Release Day: Sept 13

Everyone knows that if you play with fire you’ll end up getting burned…

What happens when you attend a first responder’s bachelor auction with your best friends? Well, if your name is Madison Kelly like me, your friends end up bidding on a date for you with your high school crush.

That’s right. Even back when I was ‘Fatty Maddie’ to all my classmates, I had eyes for the quarterback of our football team. Not like I was the only one.

Mauro Bianco may fight fires for a living, but he still sets my heart ablaze. One look at the rugged, muscular man he’s turned into and I want to slide down his pole.

One date. That’s all I’m committed to. A few hours and I can tuck him back into that tattered old shoebox in my closet.

As always, the universe has other plans. I never would’ve predicted that in a matter of days he’d turn from my dream guy into my enemy.

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Book Review:

It started with the first Responder’s bachelor auction where Madison and her friends bid for each other’s date. For her? They bid on Mauro Bianco - her ultimate crush in high school - the one who broke her heart back then.

Yep, back then, she was “Fatty Maddie” to her classmates, but it never stopped her from crushing on the quarterback of the football team. One drunken night might made her wish come true even for a couple of hours, but Mauro crushed it the following day.

Now, she was no longer the fat girl. She’s sexy, owned a business of her own. There was no way she’d let Mauro break her heart again.

Problem is, with the guy, she still acts like she’s in high school. He makes her speechless and unable to make coherent thoughts.

Mauro Bianco fights fire for a living. He had encountered too many of them, and lost some friends. But the last one took a toll on him. He was taking care of his buddy’s family while balancing his life. One date, and he’d be back into his usual routine.

But fate has other plans for the both of them, it turned out that they’d be seeing more of each other than they eventually plan.

I like Mauro, I love his brothers and his family. He’s responsible and nice. He likes being a firefighter, he has a passion for his work, but he also like doing houses alongside. He’s pretty persuasive and determined to go after what he wants.

Maddie, I had an issue with Maddie at the start. It was like in high school - why can’t you get over it? But some wounds do run deep, and I think Maddie has one of those. It took sometime, and a whole lot of “proving” from Mauro, and her friends before she finally let go.

The incident at the end was a bit cheesy, but it was sweet of Mauro to have the idea and initiative to do that.

Flirting with Fire is a great to start of the series. It’s sweet, sexy and amazing read. Can’t wait for the rest of the books in the series!

4/5

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Piper Rayne, or Piper and Rayne, whichever you prefer because we’re not one author, we’re two. Yep, you get two USA Today Bestselling authors for the price of one. Our goal is to bring you romance stories that have "Heartwarming Humor With a Side of Sizzle" (okay...you caught us, that's our tagline). A little about us... We both have kindle’s full of one-clickable books. We're both married to husbands who drive us to drink. We're both chauffeurs to our kids. Most of all, we love hot heroes and quirky heroines that make us laugh, and we hope you do, too.

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EXCERPT

My brothers widen their stances, share a look of amusement and cock their eyebrows at me.

“Hate to break it to you, but Maddie didn’t bid on you. Lauren did.” Luca laughs while Cristian chuckles.

“I’m going out with a Madison and she didn’t go to our high school. Which reminds me.” I pull out my phone.

“Maddie is Madison, you idiot,” Luca says. “Her and Lauren were my year.”

“I went to high school with Madison?” I try to let her face come back to me, and though I can picture her bright blue eyes and long chestnut hair, nothing about her is familiar from high school.

“Yes, but she definitely wasn’t hanging out at the bonfires and football pep rallies.” Luca grabs his helmet off his bike. The only responsible thing I’ve seen him do in the last few years.

“Well, shit and she doesn’t even want to go out with me? Her friend bid on me?”

Luca straddles his bike with a grin. I look over to Cristian, but he’s putting his shirt back on and starts fiddling with his earbuds. They obviously think this conversation is over.

“Yeah, but we’re all in the same boat.” Cristian’s thumb moves over his phone screen. “Maddie’s awesome and I think you’ll have a good time with her.”

“She seemed pretty quiet and way too accommodating,” I say.

Luca kicks his stand up, letting the bike rock a little under him.

Cristian’s hands freeze on the screen of his phone. “And that’s bad?” he asks.

“I want a woman who knows what she wants. Has her own damn opinions. Doesn’t just agree with everything I say.”

Cristian peeks over his shoulder, a look of amusement that matches Luca’s. “You want a girl to come up and grab your nuts?”

“I want a girl who knows what her favorite food is, has an opinion about where she wants to go for dinner, likes whatever sports team she likes and doesn’t default to my favorites.” I stuff my hands into my pockets, digging out my keys for my truck.

“Well then, Maddie might not be the one. Like I said, she’s nice.” Cristian slaps me on the shoulder. “Treat her good though, okay?” He inserts one earbud.

“What do you think I’m going to do, leave her in Garfield Park?”

He puts his other earbud in. “That’s not even funny man. I have a friend in that district and the shit that goes down there...” He shakes his head.

Cristian loses the entire point of my statement—the fact I’m not a jackass. I’m not Luca.

“It’s one date,” I say. “And who knows, maybe she’s nice but still has a wild streak.”

Christian again glances over to Luca who’s smiling like he’s fucking Mickey Mouse.

“Well, good luck on your date,” he says.

Cristian jogs away and Luca’s bike starts up.

I head to my truck.

The conversation is over, but I’m curious now.

Where’s my damn yearbook?