Scorched

Kathryn Shay

Aug 2023 · Brothers of Fire Book 4 · Ocean View Books

About this ebook

Tom Caruso is top notch in all areas of his life except one. He’s the only boy in an Italian family, a stellar firefighter and a good friend. But he fails miserably with women. Even when Stephanie Stallone shows an interest in him, he’s wary of taking on a feisty, independent and confrontational female firefighter. Nobody tangles with her.

Ratings and reviews

Scorched is the 4th book in Kathryn Shay’s Brothers of Fire series. Book 4 tells of the trials of working together and having a relationship. Lieutenant Tom Mancini and fellow lieutenant Stef Stevens can’t deny their mutual attraction but it becomes complicated when Tom’s ex shows up claiming he is the father of her unborn child. In the end, love conquers all.

ways enjoy her books of the work they do, a new love comes, and not always smoothly as this was about. Tom and Stef keep their feelings in check until she passed her test. When a complication came knocking on his door, and how to handle it, he didn't want to lose Stef. A plot that unfolds of how they decided what they wanted and took steps for this new love to unfold. With the help of his Brothers of Fire they helped him, and how they work together as a team

Scorched is book 4 in the Brothers of Fire series by Kathryn Shay and a well written addition to this series. 4.5 stars Tom, Mancini and Stephanie Stevens are firefighters at the same station. He is a lieutenant and has helped Stef study for her lieutenants test. She passes her test and gets promoted, their attraction to each other grows and they start a relationship until a former girlfriend of Tom’s shows up. Where were their relationship end up…up in flames or possibly a HEA?

About the author

A NEW YORK TIMES bestselling author, Kathryn Shay has been a lifelong writer and teacher. She has written dozens of self-published original romance titles, print books with the Berkley Publishing Group and Harlequin Enterprises and mainstream women’s fiction with Bold Strokes Books. She has won five RT Book Reviews awards, four Golden Quills, four Holt Medallions, the Bookseller’s Best Award, Foreword Magazine’s Book of the Year and several “Starred Reviews.” Her novels have been serialized in COSMOPOLITAN magazine and featured in USA TODAY, THE WALL STREET JOURNAL and PEOPLE magazine. There are over five million copies of her books in print, along with hundreds of thousands downloaded online. Reviewers have called her work “emotional and heart-wrenching.”