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Fire Inside Me
A coldhearted murderer yearning to be had and a pretty boy who wants to have him.
Sage Crawford makes a living eliminating people and he prospers from jobs well done. Business is business until he contracts to exterminate a mark in his small hometown. Hasn’t been within a hundred miles of where he grew up since he left deserting his best friend whose family practically raised Sage. His idea of reconnecting nose dives when he realizes his target is the friend’s younger brother. Skewing matters, while tracking his prey, Sage begins to hope for something he has endlessly searched for.
Emory Welton never hid being gay. His life is good until an encounter goes awry with the son of a gubernatorial candidate who wields power. The wealthy candidate will stop at nothing to be elected including keeping his son’s sexual preference concealed. Things don’t improve when Em finds himself attracted to an old family friend whose secret will devastate his family. And just when he thinks things can’t get worse, Emory is kidnapped.
Embers smolder, sparks fly and heat grows igniting a fire that can’t be smothered before flames become all-consuming.
Fire Inside Me rages with shades of John Wick, a pinch of Pretty Woman and a dash of 365 Days. And there’s a kitty cat! No furry animals are harmed in this book.
Content/warning: #drama #enemiestolovers #gay #HEA #murder #romance #violence
Sage Crawford makes a living eliminating people and he prospers from jobs well done. Business is business until he contracts to exterminate a mark in his small hometown. Hasn’t been within a hundred miles of where he grew up since he left deserting his best friend whose family practically raised Sage. His idea of reconnecting nose dives when he realizes his target is the friend’s younger brother. Skewing matters, while tracking his prey, Sage begins to hope for something he has endlessly searched for.
Emory Welton never hid being gay. His life is good until an encounter goes awry with the son of a gubernatorial candidate who wields power. The wealthy candidate will stop at nothing to be elected including keeping his son’s sexual preference concealed. Things don’t improve when Em finds himself attracted to an old family friend whose secret will devastate his family. And just when he thinks things can’t get worse, Emory is kidnapped.
Embers smolder, sparks fly and heat grows igniting a fire that can’t be smothered before flames become all-consuming.
Fire Inside Me rages with shades of John Wick, a pinch of Pretty Woman and a dash of 365 Days. And there’s a kitty cat! No furry animals are harmed in this book.
Content/warning: #drama #enemiestolovers #gay #HEA #murder #romance #violence
116 pages, Kindle Edition
Published July 13, 2020
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J. Hali Steele
112 books29 followersA former MC associate, J. Hali Steele loves anything with wheels, including motorcycles, classic automobiles, and race cars. A retired winning ex-quarter mile drag racer, J. Hali often angles to get her butt back in the driver’s seat!
J. Hali is a multi-published, best-selling author of romance in Contemporary MC, ReligErotica, Paranormal, Fantasy, and LGBTQ stories where humans, vampyres, shapeshifters, and angels collide – and they collide a lot! When J. Hali’s not writing or reading, she can be found snuggled in front of the TV with a cat in her lap and a cup of her favorite beverage of the moment.
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Death is overrated as punishment. – J. Hali Steele (from The Descendants)
Life is complicated, it’s loud, death arrives silently. – J. Hali Steele (from Twice the Burn)
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J. Hali is a multi-published, best-selling author of romance in Contemporary MC, ReligErotica, Paranormal, Fantasy, and LGBTQ stories where humans, vampyres, shapeshifters, and angels collide – and they collide a lot! When J. Hali’s not writing or reading, she can be found snuggled in front of the TV with a cat in her lap and a cup of her favorite beverage of the moment.
Favorite sayings:
Growl and roar—it's okay to let the beast out.
Death is overrated as punishment. – J. Hali Steele (from The Descendants)
Life is complicated, it’s loud, death arrives silently. – J. Hali Steele (from Twice the Burn)
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July 14, 2020
4. 5 stars. Hmm I think this is a first read for this author with this book.
Emory was funny and a spitfire but yah he is a whore and didn't exactly hit it of when he meets Sage. Oops when Sage finds his next target its pair shaped clusterfuck. And Sage wanted him but Emory disliked him heaps. Wiley he just tells it like it was although Sage differs opinion. Misunderstandings has Emory in a tither yah I said tither cause that's who Em is. When Em finds out Sages profession he doesn't like it but their chemistry is undeniably hot. Lots more happens in this quickly paced story ta keep reading. The ending was a dramatic one and ends beautifully. This has triggers of death included that may disturb readers.
• 15 yrs age gap
• enemies to lovers
• a cat called Vagas
• lots of fire sizzling between them.
Sage was an "operative of life" latterly when his next job for hire takes him to his home town.
Emory 23 was Rusty's brother, Sage's friend in there younger days.
Emory was funny and a spitfire but yah he is a whore and didn't exactly hit it of when he meets Sage. Oops when Sage finds his next target its pair shaped clusterfuck. And Sage wanted him but Emory disliked him heaps. Wiley he just tells it like it was although Sage differs opinion. Misunderstandings has Emory in a tither yah I said tither cause that's who Em is. When Em finds out Sages profession he doesn't like it but their chemistry is undeniably hot. Lots more happens in this quickly paced story ta keep reading. The ending was a dramatic one and ends beautifully. This has triggers of death included that may disturb readers.
• 15 yrs age gap
• enemies to lovers
• a cat called Vagas
• lots of fire sizzling between them.
Sage was an "operative of life" latterly when his next job for hire takes him to his home town.
Emory 23 was Rusty's brother, Sage's friend in there younger days.
Did Not Finish
July 22, 2020dnf @10%
I'm not a native English speaker but for me the sentences read awkwardly and the scenes felt extremely choppy. I think it would've benefited the book greatly if the author had chosen to more closely follow the Action-Reaction Cycle.
Obviously it doesn't have to be followed rigidly but just in the first chapter, there was so much dialogue strewn together without speaking tags and without a properly established scene (meaning only factual descriptions and very little of the reactional parts).
I admit that I skim very much when I read and it usually works. Here though, I had no idea what was happening and I was completely detached from the action.
Sorry for being a smartass :( I haven't read far enough to tell whether the plot or the characters had potential. Though it could've had a Game of Thrones level plot yet the writing still wouldn't have been able to save this book for me.
I'm not a native English speaker but for me the sentences read awkwardly and the scenes felt extremely choppy. I think it would've benefited the book greatly if the author had chosen to more closely follow the Action-Reaction Cycle.
Obviously it doesn't have to be followed rigidly but just in the first chapter, there was so much dialogue strewn together without speaking tags and without a properly established scene (meaning only factual descriptions and very little of the reactional parts).
I admit that I skim very much when I read and it usually works. Here though, I had no idea what was happening and I was completely detached from the action.
Sorry for being a smartass :( I haven't read far enough to tell whether the plot or the characters had potential. Though it could've had a Game of Thrones level plot yet the writing still wouldn't have been able to save this book for me.
Did Not Finish
July 22, 2020This was torturous to read. It seems the author never met a pronoun or conjunction she liked. Badly constructed sentences were annoying.
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