They had a sizzling sexual tension from the start and it translated vividly on page *fans self*. Why? Mainly because they both overcame their initial impressions of each other to actually understand the other person, and when they did, it was evident that they deeply cared for each other. I'm usually sceptical about the chance of a real HEA if its founded on lust (no matter how hot) but I was mostly sold on Luke's and Shay's HEA. I was a little surprised at the end when I realized that everything in StDoF had only occurred in four days the mystery is solved, the bad guys captured, and of course, the h/h fall in love. But when suspicion falls on her own brother, and her attraction to Luke rages into a full-on erotic affair, can Shay quell the fires inside her long enough to uncover the truth? Now, together with the town’s newly arrived sheriff, Luke Meza-a Las Vegas city boy with his own dark secrets-Shay must navigate a dangerous valley filled with angry ex-lovers, unfaithful spouses, and poisonous snakes in a desperate search for the killer. As an expert on mountain lions, Shay is skeptical when a local prostitute turns up mauled without a drop of blood near the body. And with a hormonally charged teenage brother to raise-and an admitted weakness for the wrong kind of man-they’re giving her plenty of trouble these days. It’s humans who usually give her the most trouble. She’s handy with a gun and can track a wild animal with the best of them.

Shay Phillips knows her way around Dark Canyon. In a southern California town ablaze with sordid secrets, a free-spirited biologist and a straitlaced sheriff join forces to investigate a suspicious killing-and find themselves getting a little too close to the flames…

Set the dark on fire