Dancing With Fire [Mass Market Paperback]

Susan Kearney (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: July 1, 2008

Accident or Murder?

Dance instructor Kaylin Danner has sacrificed her chance to be a Broadway star to help her father raise her younger sisters in Florida. When her father's laboratory blows sky high and his priceless formula for a revolutionary new fuel disappears, Kaylin is left with nothing but her father's business partner Sawyer Scott and a cache of deadly trouble.

Life or Death?

When the Danner family home is vandalized and her sisters are threatened, Kaylin and Sawyer team up to unmask the killer terrorizing her family. Sawyer's bent on pursuing both Kaylin and the missing formula, but Kaylin fights the attraction, believing Sawyer's a dreamer like her father--and in her experience, dreamers end up dead.

Editorial Reviews

Review

Praise for Susan Kearney

“Kearney is a master storyteller.”—Virginia Henley, New York Times bestselling author

"Susan Kearney is a gifted storyteller with carefully woven plots and refreshing characterization.  Her style is crisp, and keeps her readers hungrily turning the pages."--Tampa Tribune

"From the first page, Kearney captures the reader."--Affaire de Coeur

Praise for Kiss Me Deadly

“A darn good read!”-- Stella Cameron, New York Times bestselling author

“Sizzles with a steamy mix of passion, danger, and intrigue. Susan Kearney takes you on a wild ride, keeping you guessing until the very end.”—Karen Rose, bestselling author of Count to Ten

Praise for The Challenge

"Looking for something different? A futuristic romance: Susan Kearney’s The Challenge gave me a new perspective … love and sex in the future!"--Carly Phillips, New York Times bestselling author of the Chandler Brothers series

Praise for The Dare

"Out of this world love scenes, pulse pounding action, and characters who come right off the page."--Suzanne Forster, USA Today bestselling author

"A desperate gamble leads to high voltage action and sensuality in Ms. Kearney's newest page turner.  One of Ms. Kearney's strengths is her deft use of characterization which instantly vests readers in the perilous quest."--Romantic Times BOOKreviews

About the Author

Susan Kearney used to set herself on fire four times a day. Now a USA Today bestselling author, she does something really hot—she writes romance.  She can apply the old rule of "write what you know" and never run out of ideas for characters and plots. An All-American and professional diver, expert in martial arts, sailor, real estate broker and owner of a barter business as well as women's fitness and three hair salons, she has enough material for a lifetime.

Kearney, a native of New Jersey, writes full time. She resides in a suburb of Tampa, with her husband, kids, and a Boston Terrier.

Product Details

• Mass Market Paperback: 373 pages
• Publisher: Tor Books; 1st edition (July 1, 2008)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 076535845X
• ISBN-13: 978-0765358455
• Product Dimensions: 6.7 x 4.1 x 1.2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 6.4 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,886,973 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Susan Kearney used to set herself on fire four times a day, now a USA TODAY BESTSELLING author, she does something really hot, she writes paranormal romance for Grand Central Publishing. She can apply the old rule of "write what you know" and never run out of ideas for characters and plots. An All-American and professional diver, expert in martial arts, sailor, real estate broker and owner of a barter business as well as women's fitness and three hair salons, she has enough material for a lifetime. Kearney's next trilogy, The Pendragon Legacy begins with LUCAN in September 2009, then follows with RION in December and JORDAN in March 2010. These sexy futuristic paranormal romances include sexy heroes and smart met who love them as well as dragons and are based on King Arthurian legends.

Kearney, a native of New Jersey, writes full time. She resides in a suburb of Tampa with her husband, kids and Boston Terrier. Currently she's plotting her way through her 54th work of fiction. You can reach her through this web site www.susankearney.com

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2 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars exciting timely romantic suspense thriller, July 3, 2008

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Harriet Klausner - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Dancing With Fire (Mass Market Paperback)

When her mom died four years ago, the oldest daughter Kaylin Danner gave up her dream of dancing on Broadway to help her dad Dr. Henry Danner raise her younger sisters in Tampa, Florida. Now twenty-four years old and a bit old to be starting on stage, the ballet dance instructor plans to take a chance. However fate intervenes when her dad's lab explodes with him inside.

Soon afterward, someone breaks and enters into the family home vandalizing the place in search of something. Kaylin assumes it is her father's scientific work involving bio-diesel fuel. She turns to her father's business partner, Sawyer Scott to help her keep her siblings safe. However, though ruthless adversaries want the formula so they kidnap Kaylin's sister.

Even before the lab explosion and subsequent inferno, readers will feel the heat between Kaylin and her father's younger partner Sawyer, which sets the tempo for an exciting timely romantic suspense thriller. The fast-paced story line never slows down as ruthless people want to possess at any human cost the bio-diesel fuel formula the late Dr. Danner and Dr. Scott were working on. The support cast enhances the strong romantic thriller as Susan Kearney turns up the Florida summer heat with this exhilarating fiery tale.

Harriet Klausner

1 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Romantic suspense, July 4, 2008

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Helen Hancox "Auntie Helen" (Essex, England) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Dancing With Fire (Mass Market Paperback)

Susan Kearney's latest book has moved away from the paranormal romance genre in which she has recently been writing to a more apparently down-to-earth set of characters. We are introduced to three sisters, Kaylin, Becca and Lia Danner, who have to come to terms with the death of their scientist/chemist father at the beginning of the book. Everyone think the father's death is an accident but it soon becomes apparent that there may be something more sinister going on and that people may be trying to find his formula for biodiesel.

Sawyer Scott was Dr Danner's research partner and he works with Kaylin to try to investigate who may have caused the accident that killed Dr Danner. As Kaylin and Sawyer work closely together and as they learn about each other their attraction grows; however, with kidnapping and other danger to the family, is there any chance for a future for them, especially as Kaylin doesn't want to marry someone like her father and instead wants to go to New York to dance.

This story was OK with some moments of suspense and a varied cast of characters. However it was also rather unbelievable at many times with credulity stretched to breaking point as we try to go along with the plot. Some aspects of characterisation were rather sparse, such as Becca's boyfriend Shadee, and I was never entirely sure who he was or exactly what he did within the story, and the arrival of the girls' grandmother into the story was rather skimmed over. This was a reasonable read but the unlikelihood of the plot in places rather spoilt it for me and although hero and heroine were engaging people I never entirely entered the world of the story to fully appreciate them.

Originally published for Curled Up With A Good Book © Helen Hancox 2008