An excellent novel that will wring tears of frustration and pain and then tears of joy from the reader.’Fire in the Ice is a perfect title for this book.
The passion, confusion and anger that the main character (Deedra) felt, along with her pain over the loss of her parents and the death of her young husband caused her to cover her heart, lock it away and live only through a deep survival mode. (Thus the “Ice”.) Encountering Josh, she became filled with fear at what could be her first experiences with real love and true passion and she nearly loathed him for disrupting her carefully constructed world. However, Deedra was not along in her fear of feeling Josh too lived through a horrendous relationship that left him wary of commitment. Her constant rebuttal was hard on Josh, who was used to getting what he wanted, but his persistence and love released her from her own prison and helped Deedra realize that she had never really lived at all but only existed. None of Deedras journey through her Self was possible without the loyal support of her dear friend, Marcy.
This romance novel had some very steamy parts (the “Fire”) that, though...