Review: Can’t Help Falling In Love – Bella Andre

Can’t Help Falling In Love by Bella Andre
Series:  The Sullivans #3
Release Date:  December 2011
Publisher:   Bella Andre
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Source:  Provided by Author
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He ran into a burning building to save a mother and daughter…and ended up falling in love.

Gabe Sullivan risks his life every day as a firefighter in San Francisco. But after learning a brutal lesson about professional boundaries, he knows better than to risk his heart to one of his fire victims ever again.

After Gabe saves Megan Harris and her seven-year-old daughter from a deadly apartment fire, Megan knows she owes the heroic firefighter everything. Everything except her heart. Because after losing her navy pilot husband five years ago, she has vowed to never suffer through loving – and losing – a man with a dangerous job again.

Only, when Megan and Gabe meet again and uncontrollable flames of desire ignite between them, how can he possibly ignore her courage, determination, and beauty? And how can she deny not only his strong bond with her daughter.but the way his sweetly sensual kisses are challenging her to risk everything she’s been guarding for so long?

This winter, if one – or both – of them aren’t careful, they just might end up falling in love.

Megan Harris is a woman who avoid risks.  Since her first husband died in a plane crash, leaving her to raise their toddler daughter, she does what she can to ensure she and her daughter won’t have to deal with that type of heartache again.  Unfortunately, she can’t control everything and she and her daughter are caught in a horrible apartment fire hiding in the bathtub.

Enter Gabe Sullivan, firefighter extraordinaire.

Gabe has always had a fascination with fire, so firefighting is the perfect fit for him.  He never loses his cool in a fire, but when he rescued Megan and Summer during their apartment fire he was bound to break his rule of never dating a fire victim.

Megan and Gabe are perfect for each other, even if they fight their instant attraction for each other.  Megan doesn’t want to put hers and her daughter’s hearts at risk on an adrenaline junkie who might not come home and Gabe doesn’t want to be with someone who only sees him as her rescuer.  But when the two of them stop fighting each other, they find that what they feel for each is much deeper and much stronger than anything they felt before.

Their road to happiness would have been much easier if Megan was able to let go of her past hurt earlier, but you can see how already losing one husband in a senseless accident would make one gun shy.  The problem was, she wasn’t really seeing past Gabe’s job to the man who was responsible at work and would never purposefully jeopardize himself.  Once she was able to do that, she was able to fully open herself to this wonderful man.

And ladies….Gabe is one hot man.  For me, Gabe is now tied with Chase as the hottest Sullivan brother.  He’s funny, thoughtful, a fireman (hello!!) and sexy as hell.  Who wouldn’t love a man like that. 

A fantastic story about two people burned in the past but learning that you can’t paint everyone with the same broad brush stroke.