Flirting with Fire

Piper Rayne

Sept 2018 · Blue Collar Brothers Book 1 · Piper Rayne, Inc.

About this eBook

 Everyone knows that if you play with fire you’ll end up getting burned…

What happens when you attend a first responder’s bachelor auction with your best friends? Well, if your name is Madison Kelly like me, your friends end up bidding on a date for you with your high school crush.

That’s right. Even back when I was ‘Fatty Maddie’ to all my classmates, I had eyes for the quarterback of our football team. Not like I was the only one.

Mauro Bianco may fight fires for a living, but he still sets my heart ablaze. One look at the rugged, muscular man he’s turned into and I want to slide down his pole.

One date. That’s all I’m committed to. A few hours and I can tuck him back into that tattered old shoebox in my closet.

As always, the universe has other plans. I never would’ve predicted that in a matter of days he’d turn from my dream guy into my business partner—and that’s when things got interesting.

 

Ratings and reviews

It started with the first Responder’s bachelor auction where Madison and her friends bid for each other’s date. For her? They bid on Mauro Bianco - her ultimate crush in high school - the one who broke her heart back then. Yep, back then, she was “Fatty Maddie” to her classmates, but it never stopped her from crushing on the quarterback of the football team. One drunken night might made her wish come true even for a couple of hours, but Mauro crushed it the following day. Now, she was no longer the fat girl. She’s sexy, owned a business of her own. There was no way she’d let Mauro break her heart again. Problem is, with the guy, she still acts like she’s in high school. He makes her speechless and unable to make coherent thoughts. Mauro Bianco fights fire for a living. He had encountered too many of them, and lost some friends. But the last one took a toll on him. He was taking care of his buddy’s family while balancing his life. One date, and he’d be back into his usual routine. But fate has other plans for the both of them, it turned out that they’d be seeing more of each other than they eventually plan. I like Mauro, I love his brothers and his family. He’s responsible and nice. He likes being a firefighter, he has a passion for his work, but he also like doing houses alongside. He’s pretty persuasive and determined to go after what he wants. Maddie, I had an issue with Maddie at the start. It was like in high school - why can’t you get over it? But some wounds do run deep, and I think Maddie has one of those. It took sometime, and a whole lot of “proving” from Mauro, and her friends before she finally let go. The incident at the end was a bit cheesy, but it was sweet of Mauro to have the idea and initiative to do that. Flirting with Fire is a great to start of the series. It’s sweet, sexy and amazing read. Can’t wait for the rest of the books in the series!

I like the story but is a little to long to unfold but the middle is lovely, I didn't like how it end it with Mauro mom in the hospital and no update on her hopefully the second one is better.

This is definitely the-oh-my-god book. I rarely give 5 stars but Piper Rayne deserve (two different personalities) on this one. Completely mind blasting, oh-so swoon worthy that had me fainting just on my couch. I devoured it in half a day. The protagonist is not really a playboy and definitely a family man. He's the kind of imaginary soul I would vaguely take as husband for all seven lives.