Sunday, February 16, 2025

Serial Burn by Lynette Eason

Series: Lake City Heroes #3
Genre: Romantic Suspense
Publisher: Revell 
Released: January 21, 2025
320 pages
About the Book:

She's out for justice. But the arsonist she's tracking is out for retribution.

Now the fire marshal of Lake City, Jesslyn McCormick is determined to find the person who started the fire that robbed her of her family when she was just seven years old. As the twentieth anniversary of the tragedy approaches, a string of fires--including at Jesslyn's church--brings up all those old feelings and offers new evidence.

Because church fires are considered a hate crime, FBI Special Agent Nathan Carlisle is called in to work with local law enforcement. Nathan has his own past--one he'd prefer not to revisit. And focusing on helping Jesslyn track down the arsonist is a great distraction.

As both the case and the chemistry between Jesslyn and Nathan heat up, memories will come flooding in from the past to bump up against hopes for the future. And when Jesslyn comes face-to-face with her worst nightmare, she'll have to confront her fears and rely on Nathan and her community of friends in order to survive.


My Rating & Thoughts:    ⭐⭐⭐⭐

20 years ago Jesslyn lost her family to a house fire that was determined to be arson but the person responsible was never caught. Jesslyn is has made it her goal to get answers. Now as a fire marshal as she begins investigating recent fires it appears that an arsonist is targeting her. Is her family's arsonist back? A friend FBI Agent Nathan, gets assigned to the case after one of the fires is labeled a hate crime. There is an attraction between the two of them but Jesslyn doesn't want to think about that until she has answers about her family. Nathan also has a childhood trauma involving fire and his response to it has been much different than Jesslyn's. I enjoyed the friend group and how they stepped in to help as much as they could. Even though Jesslyn is an independent woman she did not refuse help from others. I appreciated that she didn't fight her friends on this. I really enjoyed the interactions between Jesslyn and Nathan and felt they were pretty honest with each other about thoughts and feelings. I liked that we knew that they were already friends before the story begins. There were certain characters I was suspicious of and was surprised when only a few of my suspicious were true, turned out some of those I suspected had no negative impact. There is a lot to digest in this story, from the childhood traumas, being targeted, secrets been kept, and mental health struggles. The one struggle I had was reminding myself of who was who in the friend group, this probably wouldn't have been an issue if I had read the prior books in the series closer together with this one. 

Favourite Quote: 

“The issue isn't you forgiving yourself, but accepting the forgiveness that God offers you. In doing that, you'll find that he gives you the ability to release the guilt and shame that's got a strangle hold on you.”

(I received an ARC of this book through NetGalley; opinions expressed 
in this review are my honest opinion and completely my own.)

Other books from this author that I have reviewed:   

   
Posted by at
Labels: ,

No comments:

Post a Comment

Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom)