Fire and Ice

Sophie Rose is a determined woman. She has broken all financial ties with her infamous father and has struck out on her own as a newspaper reporter. She has the complete support of her two best friends and her new boss. Now if the FBI would just stop trying to bug her and realize that she is not the direct pipeline to her infamous father the notorious big-time modern day Robin Hood. The new small local newspaper she works for isn't as fast paced as the big dailies but she works for an amazing, if addicted to root beer, boss who trusts her and looks out for her. Too bad her best friend went and married an FBI agent, but he has become family. Sophie is given an assignment to cover a quirky local personality who runs 5K's and thinks he is front page worthy. She spends one amazingly boring evening with him but a story is a story and meets him to get photos and follow his race the next day. Only he disappears between the time she talks with him until he shows hundreds of miles away in Prudhoe Bay, Alaska the victim of a polar bear attack. They find Sophie's card on the body and call her. Now she is intrigued as to how he just up and disappeared and just might head north. But before she heads out there is an attack on her life and everyone thinks it is coordination with the recent news of her father, again. Now suddenly Sophie is traveling with a bodyguard, one Jack MacAlister, the super hot but very opinionated partner of her best friend's husband. Their attraction is mutual but both try to deny that it exists. Suddenly it looks like Sophie's trouble has followed her to the frozen north. Will they make it out alive and more importantly will they stop fighting their passion, and let nature take its course? From Chicago to Alaska you will wonder what is going to happen to Sophie next. I was captured from the first page of Fire and Ice until the last. I love how Ms. Garwood made her a spunky; take no crap, woman who is dealing with life the best way she knows how. I was slightly confused about the journal which started Fire and Ice but before too long was able to see how things would interact. I laughed out loud at the office full of root beer, the painful description of having to listen to William's blister talks as well as when Jack first meets Sophie. I hope that we see Sophie and Jack in a future book and I think Ms. Garwood definitely has a winner in Fire and Ice. You will thoroughly enjoy your time spent reading Fire and Ice. Tanya Reviewed for Joyfully Reviewed

I have enjoyed Julie Garwood's novels since the first Buchanan novel. This story has a great love-hate relationship with at times the funniest dialogue between Sophie and Jack that I found myself giggling constantly and then re-reading it again and again. I wish Ms Garwood would go back to revisit some of the older Buchanan characters again.

She left one job because the paper wanted Sophie Rose to write about her father Bobby Rose, whom every police agency believes is a master thief. Their hometown of Chicago adores Bobby as he steals from the corrupt power brokers making them pay for betraying those who trusted them. Sophie works at a small local newspaper whose owner promises to never force her to write about her dad. William Harrington calls the paper to tell them he has won 24 5-K races and wants them to cover his next event. Sophie interviews him and finds him excited about the race. He mentions something about a Project Alpha he is participating during the interview. Something happens and he never arrives at the race. Instead his body is found in isolated part of Alaska, eaten by a polar bear. Someone shoots at Sophie and to escape from everyone's protection she travels to Alaska to learn what William was doing when he was killed. Accompanied by FBI Agent Jack Prescott, they try to keep their hormones in check while someone again tries to kill her. They conclude an unknown adversary thinks Sophie knows something incriminating. Jack and Sophie plan to know what and who Julie Garwood is known for her excellent romantic suspense thrillers and her latest FIRE AND ICE will enhance her reputation for quality. The heroine is spunky and independent just like the father she loves and adores in spite of his illegal alternate lifestyle. She is shocked when Jack pursues her even knowing who her dad is; and she enjoys his protectiveness as she ends up in one dangerous situation after another. Ms. Garwood delivers another fine tale that her myriad of fans will relish. Harriet Klausner

I have never read a book by Julie Garwood I didn't like. I liked the story line and the connection and humor between Sophie and Jack. As always it is supenseful with humor and romance. I highly recommend it. Once I start Ms Garwood's books I can't put it down. It hooks me from page one.