Review: Playing With Fire by Kate Meader

Alexandra Dempsey, a member of the fire fighting Dempsey’s and the only female at Engine 6 has spent the last few months trying to focus a bit on her, including going on dates to find a man who wants to be with her for her and not the notoriety of being with the bad ass firefighter who took a saw to a very expensive sports car.  What she doesn’t know is the man the drives her crazy, but is incredibly hot, is the one she should be focusing on.

Alex and Eli are most definitely hot together.  If ever there was a thin line between love and hate, it was with these two.  They fought, almost incessantly, in a foreplay kind of way.  But for both of them, this unwavering need to pick at the other, was really their unwillingness to admit they truly had feelings for the other.  As soon as they did admit it and stop fighting themselves and each other, they discovered there wasn’t another person they wanted.  Of course, they were their only obstacle.  Their jobs, Alex’s family and Eli’s ex did a fabulous job of getting in the way of their HEA.  But when they finally decided nothing else was more important than the other, the HEA came pretty quickly.

I don’t know what to say about PLAYING WITH FIRE that will do it justice.  Kate Meader made me a believer in mayor Eli Cooper when I thought it would be a cold day in hell before I could ever get behind that pompous ass.  But rooted for him I did in this very entertaining, very hot entry into the Hot in Chicago series.