Burn Me Anthology Release Review

Burn Me is a thirteen author anthology. I read Raging Inferno by Janine Infante Bosco and Crash and Burn by Kristen Hope Mazzola.

Crash and Burn:

Crash and Burn is the story of Mitch who is apparently a character in Kristen Hope Mazzola’s The Crashing Series. This is the beginning of his story. Mitch is just out of a relationship that ended badly. His girlfriend Cali unexpectedly left his for a rock star and now tours the world with him. Mitch decided it was time for him to start over and he is doing so in St. Louis which was the first place that he found a job as a firefighter. He had been on his previous job for ten years. He meets Bryn when he walks into a tattoo shop hoping to get California’s name covered up. Never again was he putting a woman’s name on his body. However, the little blonde in the tattoo artists chair has caught Mitch’s attention and she is getting a tattoo that means her probation period with the fire department is over. Sparks fly and these two end up having the most amazing time out on the town and in his bed. I really liked this story and can not wait to find out what is going to happen I promise the end of this story will have you holding your breath and begging for more.

Raging Inferno

New Your City Firefighter, Jimmy Casale has spent the last seventeen years risking his life to save others. After a failed marriage, he finds himself face to face with a woman who has been burned by fate. Melissa Moscato was holding out for a hero to save her from her grief. A sudden twist of fate brings two unsuspecting stranger together and as a raging inferno burns between them, they fight to hold onto one another.

I loved this story but will tell you that your going to have to wait until June to have the complete story. I promise you it ends in a perfect spot though. This is a story about fate and how it works in the most mysterious of ways. I have always been a believer of fate but I don’t question how it comes to me. Jimmy, who is a firefighter for the NYFD is also divorced and has two daughters. To say his ex is awful is a understatement. However I will say that Janine Infante Bosco has written the life of a firefighter’s wife perfectly. I know. I live it. And I could not have expressed what it is like to watch your husband put on his uniform, in my case my husband is also a police officer too, tell my daughter and I goodbye, walk out the door and leave she and I with out faith that God will allow him to walk back in that door twelve hours later. While his job is hard and he is the ultimate public servant, I feel like the spouse, mom, child, significant other of a first responder has to just accept the fact that they have to share their partner with the world and hope and pray the world appreciates everything he does for them as much as you do. I loved Jimmy and his dedication to his job and how his brothers are as important to him as his family is. When he is called to the school because his daughter is having trouble he meets Melissa who is a guidance councilor at the school. When they shake hands, the sparks fly and this is the beginning of the story of a man who has been burned once by marriage and a woman who has lost her whole entire world. Does she have the faith it takes to let Jimmy in or is she going to continue to live in the past. Plus Jimmy has a secret. One that could possibly shatter Melissa’s heart and change both of their lives forever.

This is the beginning of an amazingly beautiful love story. You do not want to miss Raging Inferno. I for one will be counting down the months till June and the release of the full book.