Strike the Fire

by Lacey Dancer

Lydia & When they meet, the fire strikes...Raised in a cold emotional wasteland, Lydia North knew she would escape no matter what it took. She would build, create structures of light and warmth. The environment was too important to ignore. But most of all, she would make her company her family. She paid the price for her success in a male dominated field.Her world was near perfect. Her friend Randi, with her lover Archer were creating a life changing project in Live Oak. They offered Lydia a chance to build their dream and invest in the future.Max Greene was also invited. Larger than life, not one to suffer fools quietly, he not only invests but decides to check out his investment.Sparks fly between the two when they meet. Neither expects the other. Both are sure that they have exactly what they want and need. Nature has other ideas. Two hurricanes, a bomb and a daring rescue show them just what the future can hold if they are willing to step into the flames….

422 pages, ebook

Published October 10, 2018

About the author

Sydney Ann Cook born in 1948, Her pen names include Sara Chance, Sherry Carr, Lacey Dancer and Sydney Ann Clary. She started to publish novels in 1983, and continued through the late nineties when family demands took center stage in her life. As Sara Chance & Lacey Dancer, she won the Romantic Times Career Achievement Award in 1991-1992 for Series Romance Love and Laughter, and a second Romantic Times Career Achievement Award in 1996 for Series Romantic Adventure. She was also awarded two Woman of the Year, 1991 & 1993. She has a number of Certificates of Excellence from Romantic Times under both Sara Chance and Lacey Dancer.
Sydney has ridden a bucking horse, driven racing boats and cars just because she was offered the chance. She collects salt cellars, rescues dogs and donkeys.
Currently, she resides in a house she designed and had built. She has taken up farming, raising pecans, pine trees and peaches. Just a little of each to start. Her current at home mode of transport are John Deere tractors.

Reviews

[Jennifer K · Rating 5 out of 5]

Ok, these books just keep getting better and better! Lydia and Max are such an awesome couple. Lydia is a strong independent woman that never thought of settling down and in walks Max and everything changes. Max is such a sweet romantic man you just can't resist. I love the fact that in all the books in the series your still getting involved in the past character's lives and are kept up to date with them. They have all developed a great friendship and respect for each other. And just let me tell you, Max and Lydia are smoking hot under the covers (wink wink). I have already started book 4 and it is gooood!!

[Shirley Nott · Rating 5 out of 5]

I have read this book and absolutely loved it. It is the third in a series and I have read the other two also. This whole series is about a small town and community which is facing growth and progress. The characters are like meeting the neighbors next door. Some are fun, some are serious but all of them make the reader want to know more about them.
Some new people come into the story and they become part of the neighborhood. I'm waiting ( impatiently) for the next book by Lacey because I know I wont be disappointed.

[Jolene MacFadden · Rating 4 out of 5]

I really enjoyed reading a romance type story that involved older people. There are more of us out there now-a-days who grew up reading romance novels just about those in their early twenties or early thirties and we really need more stories for our generation in their forties and fifties. Just because we are older doesn't mean we don't all look for a companion if we no longer have one. This is the next installment in the Life Oak series and continues with the same characters in the first two books and adds a few more that we hope to see in future editions. Now the project is getting underway but there are still tense situations to deal with. This time it's mother nature.

Some quotes from the book that we liked in particular:

As big as he was, he didn't want to feel like he was going to lose his lover in the sheets. He grinned to himself at the image.

"Her black hair reminded him of a panther he had seen roaming a habitat in Africa. She was all fluid grace and power. "

"Black hair and Elizabeth Taylor eyes had a way of creating sexual tension before she even opened her mouth. When she added a slender body and her lack of height, she generally got more hot looks and interesting propositions than the average female."

"She glared at the moon washed square of the sky she could see in the skylight above her bed. She did not get involved with business associates."

"Maxwell Greene was not going to be her lover. She controlled her body. Her body did not control her."