cover image Gold Fire

Gold Fire

Starr Ambrose. Pocket, $7.99 mass market (370p) ISBN 978-1-4516-2364-2

Former Olympic skier Jase Garrett owns a bar, the Rusty Wire, in the Colorado resort town of Barringer’s Pass, and Zoe Larkin has been sent by the neighboring ski resort to buy it out at any cost. Though Jase puts Zoe’s professional ambitions at risk by refusing to sell, the two quickly fall in love. Their happiness together, however, is threatened by the unscrupulous plans of Zoe’s fellow employees. Ambrose follows up the similarly themed Silver Sparks without quite recapturing the earlier book’s freshness. She breaks with the romance mold only in making her male lead the spunky small-business owner and her heroine the buttoned-up loner with a checkered past. Nonetheless, this story of love at high altitudes should warm the heart of anyone settling in for a wintry night. Agent: Kevan Lyon, Marsal Lyon Literary Agency. (Nov.)