Sky Ridge Hotshots Book 1 Read in 2025
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/221979619
Callahan (MMC) is a ladies man he never stays with one woman long and he never allows a woman to get attached to him. He hasn't always been that way he was once engaged to his high school sweetheart (Molly) until he found that she was having an affair with his enemy (Dave) since then he hasn't allowed himself to get too close to another woman.
Callahan is a Hot Shot firefighter (forest firefighter) and when going into this book I thought there would have been more of that part of his life in the book especially since the beginning of the book has a whole dictionary list of terms describing the job (most of which weren't really used) but it is just a brief part of the story as we enter at the end of the season towards the beginning of winter.
Prescott (Scottie) our FMC comes to town to start a new life she leaves everything she's ever known behind and has been living out of her car and off of her small savings but things are going to change for her soon she does have skills as an EMT and there is an opening after getting the job she can now secure the start to her future by getting an apartment... it's not great but it's got a roof, shower, and more room to move than her car.
Cal and Scottie meet at a bar and continue to run into each other getting to know each other a bit better through text messages. They later end up together at a wildfire camp and have a wild night in the back of the ambulance (for anyone in the medical field this was kind of an ick!)
Cal is really starting to like this girl maybe he could make an exception for her except when he starts hearing rumors that she's actually married and sees his nemesis Dave coming out her apartment early one morning he makes remarks like he spent the night and he had been intimate with Scottie... instead of asking Scottie about this he decides to cut her off completely without even telling her why or talking with her. Scottie is hurt she doesn't understand what caused him to go so cold.
Scottie is getting used to her new life and is wanting to see more of the area after being sheltered so long in the life she was trying to get away from she packs herself up and goes on a hike... where she runs into Callahan how does she keep running into this jerk?
When the weather starts to turn and Scottie gets trapped in a life or death situation who will even find her she didn't tell anyone where she was going. Callahan against his better judgement risks his own safety to find Scottie and they end up having to wait out the storm in the fire tower until the storm passes with all this time together will they be able to move past their miscommunication issues and actually discuss what's going on? What about Scottie's past why was she on the run will it catch up with her? Does she actually have a husband out there?
I plan to read the rest of the series (by different authors) I enjoyed this book for the most part and I love the cover but there were some things that were off for me see below 👇
Some negatives for the book (some spoilers proceed with caution):
- MMC was pretty mean to the FMC without telling her why, Dave gave Scottie a ride home from work when her car died then invited himself in... she was being polite it wasn't anything more than that and it would have been easily cleared up with communication... I don't know why he would automatically trust his enemy to be telling the truth over the girl he's supposedly "falling for"
- Too much time with miscommunication/no communication
- some of the spicy scenes were kind of cringe (the back of the ambulance, spicy times at the fire tower where they have limited water/soap/cleaning items to wash up with they are probably filthy... in more than the sexy way), spicy times while MMC is having a panic attack
- the FMC is married (separated) and the situation is complicated but it could potentially be considered cheating since she hasn't started the divorce proceedings yet and when the husband shows back up I was hoping that she would have stood up for herself a bit better since she had been away from the situation for several weeks and he wanted to hold back her self growth.
- FMC is very naive when it comes to relationships in general (she was sheltered in a religious cult for years until she left) --> she really lets Mr. Red flag Cal off the hook too easily once they are in the one room situation after he treated her so badly she just forgives him and they go back to dirty spice times
- A lot of filler space in some of the chapters --> describing all the items she is getting for her hike, once they are in the fire tower lots of she's reading this book with minimal light, they are rationing their food, they play battleship multiple times Cal is bad at it, there is no cell service... etc... I think some of this could have been shortened it didn't need to be several chapters of playing battleship, eating soup and putting wood on the fire.
- Everything came together very quickly to finish on a happy note, and even though they had a few conversations it was really fast after that they were "all in" from being no communication prior to their stormed in stay at the fire tower.
*Fire fighter MMC *EMT FMC *miscommunication *spicy *MMC reformed playboy
*Forced proximity *one bed/one room *hero/rescue *insta lust/love *work place romance
*like to dislike to lovers *new girl in town *Small town romance *FMC finding independence
*us vs. nature *praise/dirty talk
*Dual POV (If you get the audible version it's dual narration they did a good job really takes me out of the book the narrators are too robotic)
*Trigger warnings: Discussions of PTSD death and past trauma, cheating, religious cult --> read your trigger warnings prior to starting
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