Explosive Forces by D.D. Ayres – a Review

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Description:
Danger is heating up…

When Carly Reese’s beloved fashion boutique catches fire, she sees her dreams go up in smoke. The good news is that Carly was saved from the flames by a barking dog nearby. She soon discovers the heroic pooch is a trained K-9 who’s guarding his unconscious partner …a gorgeous firefighter who ends up in Carly’s arms.

Noah Glover and his K-9 are a fearless duo, and Noah has clearly met his match with the brave, beautiful Carly. Soon they team up to track down the arsonist behind the blast – a psychotic criminal who’s intent on framing Noah. Meanwhile, the sparks between Noah and and Carly could ignite a five-alarm fire. Should they smother their feelings in the name of justice…or fan the flames of passion?

Review:

Explosive Forces by D.D. Ayres is the 5^th book in her fun and exciting K-9 Rescue series.  This reads very well as a standalone, as each book focuses on different characters using K-9 dogs. In Explosive Forces, we meet our heroine, Carly Reese immediately as she is putting up the final touches on the grand opening of her new boutigue, when she closes the shop late at night.  Carly hears a dog nearby, and when she brushes it off and walks to her car, she hears the dog whimpering again.  Carly investigates the sound next door to her shop, and sees the dog in the empty store.  When she goes in, she sees a man unconscious, and at that moment a fire begins   Carly puts her own life in danger, trying to rescue the dog, and the man.  With the dogs help, Carly fights the smoke and drags the man out.

Noah Glover wakes up in the hospital, and vaguely remembers the young lady who rescued him, and cannot find his dog, Harley. Noah is now also under suspicion of starting the fire, and suspected of attempting a suicide.  Noah is a former firefighter, who is now an investigator; he knows that everyone believes he is responsible, and now must find a way to prove his innocence, as well as find the real arsonist who is framing him.

Before he is released from the hospital, he meets his rescuer, and they get off on the wrong foot, with both walking away angry.  In his investigation, Noah knows he must apologize to Carly, and to get his dog back.  What follows is an exciting, tense story that will find Noah and Carly working together to find out who is framing him, and slowly the chemistry between them becomes volatile and their new found friendship escalates to a sexy romance. 

While Noah is trying to ward off those who want to arrest him, and to investigate what really happened, Carly decides to rebuild her boutique.  There was a nice side story, with Carly’s new shop, called Flawless.  Having met woman who make different kind of hand crafted accessories, Carly wants to sell these unique beautiful items, helping her business as well as the women who created them.  It was fun and interesting.  I loved Harley, the German Shepard, who played a major part in this story.

As we raced to the intense pulse pounding finish, Carly’s life is danger, and Noah is desperate to find her in time.  There were moments that had us on the edge of our seats.  D.D Ayres has once again given us a wonderful exciting fast-paced story line;  great couple, sweet lovable dog and a sexy romance.  I recommend you start this series from the start, as you don’t want to miss any of these wonderful  stories. 

Reviewed by Barb

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