TITLE: Whispers and Wildfire
AUTHOR: Claire Kingsley
SERIES: Haven Brothers
SERIES ORDER: 4 of 6
RELEASE DATE: 4/10/2025
GENRE: Romantic Suspense
RATING: ❤️🔥❤️🔥❤️🔥❤️🔥❤️🔥
SPICE LEVEL: 🌶️🌶️
BLURB:
He’ll save her from the nightmare in her past.
Luke Haven has an adrenaline problem. As in, he can’t get enough.
His squeaky-clean, nice-guy reputation in his small town isn’t a lie. But it’s not the whole truth, either. Although his real problem? He’s not even sure what he’s searching for.
Melanie Andolini never thought she’d be starting over in her thirties. But moving back to her hometown is exactly the fresh start she needs.
Until she runs into Luke Haven, and things get complicated. Really complicated. Although it feels like a lifetime since they dated in high school, sparks fly as soon as they’re face to face—hot enough to light up the whole town.
Melanie blazes into Luke’s life like wildfire—messy and chaotic, beautiful and tempting. But they played with fire once and both got burned. They’re not going down that road again.
Except Melanie brought home a secret that still haunts her dreams. And when her nightmares turn all too real, Luke will risk everything to save her.
And make her his—this time, forever.
Author’s note: a not-your-usual second chance romance with a fiery heroine and a hero who won’t quench her flames—he’ll bask in her heat. Family shenanigans, witty banter, page-turning suspense, and a wild happily ever after that will leave your heart full.
MY REVIEW:
DISCLAIMER: I voluntarily read and reviewed an advance copy of this book. All thoughts and opinions are my own.
Whispers and Wildfire is hands down my favorite book in the Haven Brothers series so far. I absolutely loved Luke and Melanie’s story! I love a good second chance story and their story was absolutely perfect!
I loved watching their feelings for each other grow throughout the book. I loved how strong Melanie was, and I loved how protective Luke was!
I was one of Claire’s readers who thought that Luke would be stubborn and we wouldn’t be getting his book until the end, but I was so happy and pleasantly surprised when Claire revealed that Luke was this book’s hero! I am really looking forward to seeing who who’s next to have their love story told.
I also have to say, I absolutely loved the villain in this story! I loved how creepy Claire wrote him, and how the creepiness just flew off the page! I really love Claire’s romantic suspense era and I can’t wait to see where she goes from here!
If you have not read this series before, you do not have to read books 1 - 3 to understand this story. You will want to read them afterwards though because the couples from those books do make an appearance in this story as they are family, so it would make sense for them to show up lol.
Thank you Claire, Stacey, Nikki and Alex for the advance copy!