Series: Ladder Company #1
Genres: Contemporary
Published by Left Break Press Publication Date: April 30, 2015
Pages: 260
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"Just let yourself fall for me."
Melanie Kincaid is a trust-fund baby with a knack for sassy comebacks and unnecessarily complicating her privileged life. So, of course, she would have to fall in love with a man she can't have.
Jameson Hayes is a NYC firefighter for Manhattanβs oldest ladder company. He has big shoes to fill and a city to protect. Heβs strong, sexy, and not looking for the complications Melanie brings. But he can't stay away from her either. The attraction between them is immediate, and the pull is crazy powerful. But she's only home for the summer and long-distance relationships never work.
Unfortunately, Melanieβs beauty and smart mouth are a lethal combination and Jameson isn't the only Hayes who's interested. As if his brother isn't enough to compete with, now the city's most famous arsonist wants to claim her as his next prize. Jameson can't stand to watch Melanie get hurt and she can't seem to keep herself out of trouble.
Fall for Me is the first Ladder Company novel, a stand-alone companion series about New York's most elite firefighting family with hot alpha heroes, snarky heroines, and an arsonist hell-bent on destruction.
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FALL FOR ME starts a brand new series for JC Emery. Β She’s jumping from MC into the world of firefighters with a family readers can’t help but be drawn too.
When I started FALL FOR ME I wasn’t sure what to expect from hot ass firefighter Jameson Hayes. Β He was hot, he was sweet, he was all alpha male when he needed to be, but he was also a guy who was caught between two women. Β And while I applaud Jameson for sticking to his slightly askew morale compass when it comes to Melanie, I just couldn’t understand why he couldn’t find a way to make things right with her sooner. Β And when he did have the opportunity, why he squandered away so much time.
Melanie was a character that was easy to like. Β I may not have agreed with all her choices when it came to Jameson, but I was pulling for her to get what she wanted.
While most of the storyline with FALL FOR ME revolved around the romance between Jameson and Melanie, there is also a little suspense with an arsonist that seems to be hell bent on getting revenge on the Hayes family and Ladder Company. Β That storyline doesn’t get resolved here, but it appears it will be a constant thread through the other books in the series. Β I’m curious as to what could possibly be the motivation behind all of this.
A solid start to the series. Β I look forward to seeing what the remaining Hayes siblings (2 guys and a girl) have in store.
βEvery time you think about me you touch your necklace.β His eyes fall from mine to the gold wishbone that hangs from my neck and rests against the hollow at the base of my throat. I remove my hand from my necklace. I donβt even realize Iβm doing it half the time. I could lie, that Iβm not thinking about him, but he wouldnβt believe me.
βYou hear my voice and you touch it,β he says slowly with a soft smile that creeps up on his lips. βYou see me walk by and you touch it.β
βAnd weβre friends,β I say, reminding both of us of this fact.
βKind of hard to be friends when one of us is refusing to participate,β he says.
βThis is stupid. Weβre attracted to each other, but weβve chosen not to do something about it. Iβm going back to New Orleans until graduation and youβre stuck in a lease with Miss Cranky Pants. Thatβs our lives and every time you start being all Mr. Gorgeous, you make it hard for me to remember that.β
His shoulders shake as he laughs, looking carefree for the first time in over a week, and he breathes deeply as he calms himself. βMiss Cranky Pants, thatβs a good one.β
I donβt even have the decency to be embarrassed for letting my nickname for Lydia slip in front of him. Itβs bad enough I said it in front of Roy, his dad, whoβs now using it on an almost exclusive basis. Thankfully, Jameson doesnβt call me on referring to him as Mr. Gorgeous.
βI want to be your friend but we need boundaries,β I say. I donβt really want friendship, but Iβll take what I can get.
βList your demands and Iβll list mine.β
Christ, this man is ridiculous.
As a child, JC was fascinated by things that went bump in the night. As they say, some things never change. Now, as an adult, she divides her time between the sexy law men, mythical creatures, and kick-ass heroines that live inside her head and pursuing her bachelor’s degree in English. JC is a San Francisco Bay Area native, but has also called both Texas and Louisiana home. These days she rocks her flip flops year round in Northern California and can’t imagine a climate more beautiful.
JC writes adult, new adult, and young adult fiction. She dabbles in many different genres including science fiction, horror, chick lit, and murder mysteries, yet she is most enthralled by supernatural stories– and everything has at least a splash of romance.
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