4 Smooches!
Synopsis
Lydia Kincaid’s shipping back to Boston, but she’s not happy about it. She left to get away from the firefighting community—her father was a firefighter, her brother’s a firefighter and, more important, her ex is a firefighter. But family is number one, and her father needs her help running the pub he bought when he retired. Soon, Lydia finds it hard to resist the familiar comfort and routine, and even harder to resist her brother’s handsome friend Aidan.
Aidan Hunt is a firefighter because of the Kincaid family. He’s had the hots for Lydia for years, but if ever a woman was off-limits to him, it’s her. Aside from being his mentor’s daughter, she’s his best friend’s sister. The ex-wife of a fellow firefighter. But his plan to play it cool until she leaves town again fails, and soon he and Lydia have crossed a line they can’t uncross.
As Aidan and Lydia’s flirtation turns into something more serious, Lydia knows she should be planning her escape. Being a firefighter’s wife was the hardest thing she’s ever done, and she doesn’t know if she has the strength to do it again. Aidan can’t imagine walking away from Boston Fire—even for Lydia. The job and the brotherhood are his life; but if he wants Lydia in it, he’ll have to decide who’s first in his heart.
Review
I am a sucker for a fire fighter book and a brother’s best friend book is a supreme weakness of mine. So when I read the blurb and then saw that AMAZINGLY HOT cover I had to get my hands on this book! Heat Exchange is my first book by Shannon Stacy and it was an easy beach read with a decently hot heat factor.
Aidan is a hot firefighter who has always had a thing for his best friend’s older sister but she was married and when her marriage went south she moved away. But now she is back to help her sister run the family bar while her sisters struggles to save her own marriage. Lydia has one rule when dating, NO FIREFIGHTERS. Her firefighter ex did a number on her and no matter how attracted she is to her bother’s best friend she is just not sure she can ever go down that road again.
‘He’d hoped kissing Lydia would get the need out of his system, but it has backfired on him. It might have gotten the overwhelming need to kiss her out of his system, but now he’d been left with an even more overwhelming need for more. More Lydia More kissing and more touching. More of her voice in his ear when it was low and husky with desire.’
While I really enjoyed this story my main concern was that I was way more into the side characters, Ashley and Danny. I wanted so much more of them. Danny’s dark bruiting nature called to me and my heart hurt along with Ashley’s. Still though, Aidan and Lydia were a couple I could easily root for. They didn’t always make the right choice and sometimes I wanted to tell them to get it right but they needed to make those mistakes to learn from them.
Overall, Heat Exchange is a book I would recommend to anyone who enjoys sexy fireman, witty heroines and a little sneaking around. This was a book easy to get lost into and was a great escape from the drama and trials of real life.
~miranda
