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Phoenix Ridge Fire Department #5
Pasiones Ardientes: Romance sáfico entre enemigas: una bombera teniente y una piloto con mucha actitud… y aún más química (Las Bomberas de Phoenix Ridge nº 5)
Se odian.
No pueden resistirse.
¿Sobrevivirán para contarlo?
Si te encantan los romances entre enemigas, con tensión sexual, encierros forzados y mujeres decididas que lo arriesgan todo, este libro es para ti.
Los incendios forestales asedian Phoenix Ridge, y la teniente Zoey Knight está en el corazón de la batalla. Profesional, experimentada y directa… no está nada contenta con que la nueva piloto de helicóptero, Lux Valentine, interfiera en su operación.
Y la antipatía es mutua.
Pero cuando quedan atrapadas juntas en una misión de rescate de alto riesgo, el fuego entre ellas se vuelve literal y emocional.
A solas. Bajo presión.
Y con una atracción explosiva que ninguna quiere admitir.
¿Pueden sobrevivir al peligro… sin rendirse al deseo?
¿Y qué pasará cuando vuelvan al mundo real?
Pasiones Ardientes es el quinto libro de la serie Las Bomberas de Phoenix Ridge, una saga repleta de acción, tensión y romances sáficos que encienden cada página. Autoconclusivo, pero parte de un universo compartido.
No pueden resistirse.
¿Sobrevivirán para contarlo?
Si te encantan los romances entre enemigas, con tensión sexual, encierros forzados y mujeres decididas que lo arriesgan todo, este libro es para ti.
Los incendios forestales asedian Phoenix Ridge, y la teniente Zoey Knight está en el corazón de la batalla. Profesional, experimentada y directa… no está nada contenta con que la nueva piloto de helicóptero, Lux Valentine, interfiera en su operación.
Y la antipatía es mutua.
Pero cuando quedan atrapadas juntas en una misión de rescate de alto riesgo, el fuego entre ellas se vuelve literal y emocional.
A solas. Bajo presión.
Y con una atracción explosiva que ninguna quiere admitir.
¿Pueden sobrevivir al peligro… sin rendirse al deseo?
¿Y qué pasará cuando vuelvan al mundo real?
Pasiones Ardientes es el quinto libro de la serie Las Bomberas de Phoenix Ridge, una saga repleta de acción, tensión y romances sáficos que encienden cada página. Autoconclusivo, pero parte de un universo compartido.
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238 pages, Kindle Edition
Published July 28, 2025
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December 27, 2025
Passions Ignite
I might've mentioned this before, but Phoenix Ridge seems to be the Gates of Hell! However, there are female firefighters, pilots, doctors, etc., so it could be heaven too - depends on how you look at it 🤷🏽♀️
Zoey and Lux are at odds in their jobs, but suddenly find themselves in a life or death situation and have to depend on each other to survive. Yes, it's as intense as it sounds, but it's also just as exciting!
I might've mentioned this before, but Phoenix Ridge seems to be the Gates of Hell! However, there are female firefighters, pilots, doctors, etc., so it could be heaven too - depends on how you look at it 🤷🏽♀️
Zoey and Lux are at odds in their jobs, but suddenly find themselves in a life or death situation and have to depend on each other to survive. Yes, it's as intense as it sounds, but it's also just as exciting!
September 15, 2025
HMFG. I put up one star but, imagine if you will, a minus next to that star.
Despite what some 5-star reviewers--who should not be allowed to operate heavy machinery or drive on public roads--to say nothing of leaving book reviews, this series is not getting better. It's getting worse. Granted, any given story in a series may not appeal as much, but I mean the actual writing quality. I was more than halfway convinced that Emily was using AI to help write this particular book.
The main reason for this thought was the endless repetition of not just words or phrases but chapters themselves. It's as if she said, "Hmm, that was a good chapter. What should I do next? Copy-Paste, baby!"
For example, distances, gaps, and spaces are closed multiple times each chapter. This is a tropey phrase in this genre anyway, but it happened three times in one chapter.
Then there is the description of Fire Chief Becky Thompson--excuse me, LEGENDARY Fire Chief Becky Thompson. In the descriptions for Books 4 & 6, that adjective is used--and I didn't find it as weird in book 4 since it focused on Becky's daughter Ember. However, in this book, every time she is described it's as if that is her actual title. All of which is to say, it sounds like the prompt put into the AI by the "author" describing her as legendary and the AI running with it (as it does).
I can't forget the random odd moments of description such as: "Discarded drinks cans". What? Is it beer? Soda and/or Pop? Water? What brand? Who describes any of these containers as "drinks cans"?! A very literal computer program perhaps? Hmmm?
As I said, this also happened with the chapters once the great pilot, Lux, and her wonderful choppa' crash in a wildfire with Lieutenant Zoey on board.
The chapters alternate the POV from Lux to Zoey but it doesn't matter.
1. There will be a reference to the fire. Sometimes it is close. Sometimes there's some distance but...
2. The POV character will think about how attracted they are to the other and worry if they feel the same.
3. There will be some incident--a river, a lake, a new threat, something--that will push them together.
4. There will be intimacy.
5. The POV character will wonder if their relationship can work out and if the other feels the same.
Rinse & Repeat.
However, there are some Phoenix Ridge tropes that stay true regardless of authorship.
The most important one, the one you can surely count on in any of the books, is that the featured amazing firefighters are terrible at their jobs--from actually fighting fires to workplace ethics.
Another trope is that Phoenix Ridge has a geography in flux. When the series began Phoenix Ridge was described as a desert town near the border of Nevada and, presumably, California given the proximity to Las Vegas. It is not featured. In the second book, the desert location is confirmed. In the third book, suddenly there was an ocean, the famous Nevada Ocean that we've all seen, because Emily wanted to do an ocean rescue, I guess. In the fourth book, the town is "ensconced" by the desert--though when the wildfire happens it appears to be more of a chapparal ecosystem with some towering trees. By the fifth book, it's a desert but the ocean is mentioned and there is an incredibly dense mountainous forest. "If I'm being honest" (always use a trope to discuss other tropes), if not for the impossible ocean, it wouldn't seem so stupid.
Anway, back to the case of two more people that are terrible at their jobs... before the great pilot crashes, the reader is treated to Lux and Zoey unintentionally parodying a beer commercial from the 70s, where beer-guzzling patrons would debate: "Tastes great!" "Less filling!" In this case it was Zoey: "Save people!" and Lux: "Fight Fires!" until Legendary Fire Chief Becky told them to shut up and they have to do both.
However, it is when they crash that their terrible skills really shine. For the most part, they act like two women who were randomly hiking, perhaps paired up during some corporate retreat, with little in the way of wildlife survival skills, and then had to survive a forest fire (a more interesting premise actually). Initially, Zoey acts like she has no idea what to do in a fire. Later, Lux is helpless before a rattlesnake. Then, neither of these two firefighters knows how to start a fire but somehow Zoey can catch a fish, by hand, on her first attempt. That such snatching is typically more for catfish than the unnamed fish she captures.
Later Lux--I think, or maybe it was Zoey, it truly doesn't matter--sees a pack of deer running and surmises, "The fire is coming closer" and pushes down her disappointment at a moment of intimacy being interrupted. Stupid wildfire burning thousands of acres and threatening to kill me, I was gonna get some!"
Lux (again, I believe) declares, "Animals have an instinct to go where it's safe!" Pardon me, I had to wipe the blood dripping from my eyes at seeing my fingers type that. Their instinct is to run away from the fire--because ouchy hot hard-to-breathe kill. In either case, it is clearly an instinct these two women do not have. The fire moves at a snail's pace apparently because they repeatedly stop--twice--to bathe. And also to sleep the night. And, of course, to have sex or at least make out.
Yet, earlier, they declared the fire was all around them. Indeed, throughout these scenes, the crackling of the fire is repeatedly noted as being audible. I'll assume most readers have sat by a fireplace, or a campfire, and maybe even a bonfire. Now, particularly outdoors, I'll assume you've also noticed that barring a few louder bangs from trapped gasses and such, the crackling sound dissipates quickly as you walk away.
Having endured being in the middle of the recent Palisades fire in California, I could hear the fire crackling when it was fifteen yards away from me and burning the entire hillside. I also noticed that the air was nearly unbreathable. Lux and Zoey experience nary a cough and, again, most importantly--the fire is being described as right on top of them but their actions make it seem like it is a distant looming possible threat.
Fire wasn't the only natural disaster not being very disastrous for our MCs. For some inexplicable reason a massive landslide occurs--on the ground they are walking on--and they have time for dialogue as it's occurring because it is happening, apparently, in slow motion. Yes, techincally, a landslide can move verrrrry slowly, but the ones that instill immediate panic shouldn't leave time for "Come on we have to keep going!" "You can do it!" "We'll get out of this! Keep moving!" and also fatally injure a rabbit--that Zoey kills out of mercy but then they decide to eat more berries--that I was really hoping were poisonous at this point.
Ignoring that it seems highly unsanitary to be hiking all day then shoving one's fingers into another person--and while they had two baths they spoke frequently of eating but not drinking despite every one with a lick of knowledge knowing that dehydration will kill much faster than starvation--in one of their final intimate scenes on the mountain, they bang in the lean-to shelter Zoey made because "girl scouts" and it is noted how cozy (cramped) the lodgings are. So, when Zoey releases Lux from an embrace, Lux doesn't pull away and leave and Zoey is grateful for that. Where was she going to go? Into the woods at night--the supposedly burning woods?
In any event, they are rescued and lauded as heroes for crashing a helicopter and not dying from incompetence--so, they'd fit right in with the current political administration. That they would have gotten out days sooner if they had spent less time angsting and banging is irrelevant.
Zoey (I believe, again--doesn't matter) tells Lux: "You have no idea how much I missed you!" And my thought was, "I have no idea how this book still has two and a half chapters to go!"
Often, in books like this, I complain about how the characters can clearly see the relationship (and the sex) is the best they've had yet still try to think of reasons why it shouldn't/can't work and all the forced conflict. Yet, here, with two characters who have stated and shown they suck at relationships, simply come together and are happy. There was no emotional let down after being rescued or a concern to be had that the adrenaline/passion of running for one's life might have altered feelings and perceptions. It was two characters who had always said, "Check Please" once the last bite was eaten with relationships now asking for second helpings and a dessert menu. They should be fine. Emily wrote them that way.
Despite what some 5-star reviewers--who should not be allowed to operate heavy machinery or drive on public roads--to say nothing of leaving book reviews, this series is not getting better. It's getting worse. Granted, any given story in a series may not appeal as much, but I mean the actual writing quality. I was more than halfway convinced that Emily was using AI to help write this particular book.
The main reason for this thought was the endless repetition of not just words or phrases but chapters themselves. It's as if she said, "Hmm, that was a good chapter. What should I do next? Copy-Paste, baby!"
For example, distances, gaps, and spaces are closed multiple times each chapter. This is a tropey phrase in this genre anyway, but it happened three times in one chapter.
Then there is the description of Fire Chief Becky Thompson--excuse me, LEGENDARY Fire Chief Becky Thompson. In the descriptions for Books 4 & 6, that adjective is used--and I didn't find it as weird in book 4 since it focused on Becky's daughter Ember. However, in this book, every time she is described it's as if that is her actual title. All of which is to say, it sounds like the prompt put into the AI by the "author" describing her as legendary and the AI running with it (as it does).
I can't forget the random odd moments of description such as: "Discarded drinks cans". What? Is it beer? Soda and/or Pop? Water? What brand? Who describes any of these containers as "drinks cans"?! A very literal computer program perhaps? Hmmm?
As I said, this also happened with the chapters once the great pilot, Lux, and her wonderful choppa' crash in a wildfire with Lieutenant Zoey on board.
The chapters alternate the POV from Lux to Zoey but it doesn't matter.
1. There will be a reference to the fire. Sometimes it is close. Sometimes there's some distance but...
2. The POV character will think about how attracted they are to the other and worry if they feel the same.
3. There will be some incident--a river, a lake, a new threat, something--that will push them together.
4. There will be intimacy.
5. The POV character will wonder if their relationship can work out and if the other feels the same.
Rinse & Repeat.
However, there are some Phoenix Ridge tropes that stay true regardless of authorship.
The most important one, the one you can surely count on in any of the books, is that the featured amazing firefighters are terrible at their jobs--from actually fighting fires to workplace ethics.
Another trope is that Phoenix Ridge has a geography in flux. When the series began Phoenix Ridge was described as a desert town near the border of Nevada and, presumably, California given the proximity to Las Vegas. It is not featured. In the second book, the desert location is confirmed. In the third book, suddenly there was an ocean, the famous Nevada Ocean that we've all seen, because Emily wanted to do an ocean rescue, I guess. In the fourth book, the town is "ensconced" by the desert--though when the wildfire happens it appears to be more of a chapparal ecosystem with some towering trees. By the fifth book, it's a desert but the ocean is mentioned and there is an incredibly dense mountainous forest. "If I'm being honest" (always use a trope to discuss other tropes), if not for the impossible ocean, it wouldn't seem so stupid.
Anway, back to the case of two more people that are terrible at their jobs... before the great pilot crashes, the reader is treated to Lux and Zoey unintentionally parodying a beer commercial from the 70s, where beer-guzzling patrons would debate: "Tastes great!" "Less filling!" In this case it was Zoey: "Save people!" and Lux: "Fight Fires!" until Legendary Fire Chief Becky told them to shut up and they have to do both.
However, it is when they crash that their terrible skills really shine. For the most part, they act like two women who were randomly hiking, perhaps paired up during some corporate retreat, with little in the way of wildlife survival skills, and then had to survive a forest fire (a more interesting premise actually). Initially, Zoey acts like she has no idea what to do in a fire. Later, Lux is helpless before a rattlesnake. Then, neither of these two firefighters knows how to start a fire but somehow Zoey can catch a fish, by hand, on her first attempt. That such snatching is typically more for catfish than the unnamed fish she captures.
Later Lux--I think, or maybe it was Zoey, it truly doesn't matter--sees a pack of deer running and surmises, "The fire is coming closer" and pushes down her disappointment at a moment of intimacy being interrupted. Stupid wildfire burning thousands of acres and threatening to kill me, I was gonna get some!"
Lux (again, I believe) declares, "Animals have an instinct to go where it's safe!" Pardon me, I had to wipe the blood dripping from my eyes at seeing my fingers type that. Their instinct is to run away from the fire--because ouchy hot hard-to-breathe kill. In either case, it is clearly an instinct these two women do not have. The fire moves at a snail's pace apparently because they repeatedly stop--twice--to bathe. And also to sleep the night. And, of course, to have sex or at least make out.
Yet, earlier, they declared the fire was all around them. Indeed, throughout these scenes, the crackling of the fire is repeatedly noted as being audible. I'll assume most readers have sat by a fireplace, or a campfire, and maybe even a bonfire. Now, particularly outdoors, I'll assume you've also noticed that barring a few louder bangs from trapped gasses and such, the crackling sound dissipates quickly as you walk away.
Having endured being in the middle of the recent Palisades fire in California, I could hear the fire crackling when it was fifteen yards away from me and burning the entire hillside. I also noticed that the air was nearly unbreathable. Lux and Zoey experience nary a cough and, again, most importantly--the fire is being described as right on top of them but their actions make it seem like it is a distant looming possible threat.
Fire wasn't the only natural disaster not being very disastrous for our MCs. For some inexplicable reason a massive landslide occurs--on the ground they are walking on--and they have time for dialogue as it's occurring because it is happening, apparently, in slow motion. Yes, techincally, a landslide can move verrrrry slowly, but the ones that instill immediate panic shouldn't leave time for "Come on we have to keep going!" "You can do it!" "We'll get out of this! Keep moving!" and also fatally injure a rabbit--that Zoey kills out of mercy but then they decide to eat more berries--that I was really hoping were poisonous at this point.
Ignoring that it seems highly unsanitary to be hiking all day then shoving one's fingers into another person--and while they had two baths they spoke frequently of eating but not drinking despite every one with a lick of knowledge knowing that dehydration will kill much faster than starvation--in one of their final intimate scenes on the mountain, they bang in the lean-to shelter Zoey made because "girl scouts" and it is noted how cozy (cramped) the lodgings are. So, when Zoey releases Lux from an embrace, Lux doesn't pull away and leave and Zoey is grateful for that. Where was she going to go? Into the woods at night--the supposedly burning woods?
In any event, they are rescued and lauded as heroes for crashing a helicopter and not dying from incompetence--so, they'd fit right in with the current political administration. That they would have gotten out days sooner if they had spent less time angsting and banging is irrelevant.
Zoey (I believe, again--doesn't matter) tells Lux: "You have no idea how much I missed you!" And my thought was, "I have no idea how this book still has two and a half chapters to go!"
Often, in books like this, I complain about how the characters can clearly see the relationship (and the sex) is the best they've had yet still try to think of reasons why it shouldn't/can't work and all the forced conflict. Yet, here, with two characters who have stated and shown they suck at relationships, simply come together and are happy. There was no emotional let down after being rescued or a concern to be had that the adrenaline/passion of running for one's life might have altered feelings and perceptions. It was two characters who had always said, "Check Please" once the last bite was eaten with relationships now asking for second helpings and a dessert menu. They should be fine. Emily wrote them that way.
October 17, 2024
Like the song says, just one look is all it took for Lux and Zoey to feel an attraction towards each other. I love that most of the story takes place in the woods and up the mountain side. This makes for an intimate few days between these ladies with sparks flying everywhere. There are things in Emily's stories that may seem unreal but that is what writing a story is all about, writing it however you see fit. I love the way she writes and I've said she's like a lesbian Harlequin romance writer. I appreciate a good lesbian romance with some comedy thrown into the mix. Most of all I love a happy ending and this book has a fantastic happy ending.
October 17, 2024
Fiery Mountain
Lux is the Chief helicopter pilot for the Phoenix Ridge Fire Department. The moment she lies on the new Lieutenant Zoey she is attracted. When they clash in their first departmental meeting, Lux is sure how to make the job situation better. A steamy story of survival and courage in a fight to stay alive. Great series.
Lux is the Chief helicopter pilot for the Phoenix Ridge Fire Department. The moment she lies on the new Lieutenant Zoey she is attracted. When they clash in their first departmental meeting, Lux is sure how to make the job situation better. A steamy story of survival and courage in a fight to stay alive. Great series.
October 19, 2024
Adventure, Survival and Love
Firefighters, Lux and Zoey, start off butting heads in the fire station. During a huge forest fire they have to rely on each other to survive. Emily Hayes’ Phoenix Ridge Fire Department series burns steaming hot with the romance. I greatly enjoy reading this series.
Firefighters, Lux and Zoey, start off butting heads in the fire station. During a huge forest fire they have to rely on each other to survive. Emily Hayes’ Phoenix Ridge Fire Department series burns steaming hot with the romance. I greatly enjoy reading this series.
January 21, 2026
Simply amazing
EMILY another fabulous book. You are an amazing woman and author. I hope I get to find out if they're married and or still working in the same station together in book 6.Keep up the great interesting and very sexy writing. One of your biggest fans.
EMILY another fabulous book. You are an amazing woman and author. I hope I get to find out if they're married and or still working in the same station together in book 6.Keep up the great interesting and very sexy writing. One of your biggest fans.
October 17, 2024
passions ignite
Wow explosive and everything we have come to expect from Emily Hayes
Great read uncertainty, sorrow and finding love when you least expect it🌈
Wow explosive and everything we have come to expect from Emily Hayes
Great read uncertainty, sorrow and finding love when you least expect it🌈
October 20, 2024
Such a great story about learning to balance work and love.
November 13, 2024
This series has gotten increasingly better. With every book, Emily finds new ways for strong women to find their match.
August 11, 2025
Lux is a helicopter pilot and Zoey is the new fire station chief so when they butt heads over how to handle a fire outbreak, it's obvious that the tension will turn to spice. As with most of these books, you aren't really in it for the character development and the cute little wrap up at the end is fine, but almost not needed. Emily Hayes writes spice well and writes an easily believable story.
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