Burn

by H.C. Brown

Gold Coast, Australia. Harper Cole is immediately attracted to the new fireman at his Golden Beach Stationhouse, Sax Peters. But the six-foot-five hunk is fifteen years younger and may be a much more smoldering, sexy man than Harper can handle.

Genres: M M Romance, Contemporary, Short Stories, Romance

37 pages, Kindle Edition

First published January 1, 2000

About the author

H.C Brown is a multi published, best selling, award winning, author of Historical, Paranormal, Sci-Fi, Fantasy, BDSM, Time Travel, Action Adventure, and Contemporary Romance.
In 2011 she was delighted to received nomination in three categories in the 2011 CAPA Awards.
H.C writes about strong alpha males in complex settings and all her stories have happy endings.
She married her childhood sweetheart and lives close to the beach in Queensland, Australia. Her interests include art, music, and reading romance.

Reviews

[Elisa Rolle]

The story starts in a very “glossy” way, 37 years old Harper is cruised in a gay club by 22 years old Sax: both firemen, Sax saw Harper’s picture in the local Firemen Calendar and he himself was in the one for Sidney, and instead of sharing field wounds and stories they share the common experience of being the forbidden fantasy of many gay men around the world. At first impression, Sax is not exactly a “nice” guy: sure he is hot and easy, but he is also quite rude, Harper is with another friend and colleague, Grant, but Sax doesn’t like him, and he treats the pure guy like he was trash, an attitude that he will maintain for all the story even if, sincerely, Grant did nothing to deserve it, if not some light pun.

In any case it’s very clear that Sax is very interested in a sex relationship with Harper, more on the level of a buddy friends than lovers, and Harper, maybe since Sax is hot and younger, or maybe since he was on a long dry spell, doesn’t put up much resistance. Again Sax doesn’t make a good impression: first time they have sex, Harper is on the receiving end, and it’s his first time; Sax doesn’t bother to ask (and maybe this is justifiable, 37 years old is not exactly a newbie), but when he finds out, instead of being contrite, or maybe pleased, he is like, “well, I was in an hurry, sorry if I was rushed…”. Despite this attitude Sax is a force of nature, and in a way he conquers Harper so much that he becomes reckless: they are “discovered” and blackmailed and the output is not of the most nice. In a way, Sax is faithful to his character, and in this case, I don’t agree with Harper’s reaction, that is almost of betrayal: they don’t have a long-term relationship, it was only Harper who used the word “love”, and Sax has never said anything else.

What surprised me was the end: for all the story the pace was sex, sex and again sex, the characters were good, really good, at least they were not the usual hot firemen, good and well-behaved; when things between them went a little out of track, I thought, well, that is a challenge for the author, how will she manage to mend the relationship? Of course it was in the classical way, a dangerous situation that proved to both Harper and Sam that nothing is important if not love. And by the way, there was also a tender kitty that really contribuited to the imagine of the hot fireman with a tender thing in his hands… kittens, babies, soft things to soften up an hard imagine.

Be warned: there is non-consensual sex and also an extra-relationship “affair” (but since the second is related to the first, I don’t think it’s a different warning, only the consolation that at least the non-con sex wasn’t between the main characters); I think it’s in the story, and the scene contributes to the characters later actions, so it’s not gratuituos, but I’m sure it’s not for everyone either.

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[Ro · Rating 3 out of 5]

While firefighter love is usually exactly what I want to read, this one had some aspects that turned me away. Harper is with his friend grant at a club when they see the very sexy and very arrogant Sax. It turns out Sax is the new firefighter at Harpers station and also turns out to have just moved in across the hall. Sax wants sex now, Harper doesn't do casual. They share a habit of running on the beach, so with this and working together, they get to know each other. The downside was that Sax was a selfish lover in my opinion. He also emotionally retreats from Harper. He then performs an act devastating to Harper, in a misguided attempt at saving their jobs. He seemed to give in to that too easily for such a self assured man. The end seemed a little false to me.

[Meggie · Rating 2 out of 5]

The story is short and the start is good. It pulls you in and your start to ask yourself what will happen between Harper and Sax, but damn the sex is lame, really, blah...It could be so hot.. I mean the characters are interesting and you just want to know them, but the lame sex and the short plot which is not developed at all, sad, it was promising and with good start.

[~SexyBookWorm~ · Rating 2 out of 5]

This book was a complete rip off! $4.00 for a handful of pages! I really liked the characters but the dialogue was cheesy at best. It was a good foundation but if it could be tweaked it has the potential to be awesome.

[Maya · Rating 2 out of 5]

I have to say that considering that I just stupidly paid $4.00 for this 38 page book I am not a happy camper. That being said, this isn't a bad story but its just not long enough to be satisfying.

[Kiki · Rating 2 out of 5]

In terms of writing quality, more like 1 1/2, but it was entertaining, in a "junk food for the mind" kind of way ...

[Julia · Rating 4 out of 5]

HOT HOT, SMOKING HOT

[Blue Dragon · Rating 2 out of 5]

This just didn't do it for me. It had the possibility to be a much stronger story but it never reached it's potential.