If you’ve read any of my books, you probably know that I often have a bit of suspense in my stories. There’s a reason for that—romantic suspense was one of my gateways into romance (Nora Roberts, for one), and I’ve always loved the co-existence of an action/mystery/danger plotline along with the romantic one. Falling in love while investigating a crime or navigating peril? Totally my jam! But in my own books, I’ve focused more on the romance, the sizzle, the banter.
So when it was time to write a new series, I started toying with the idea of writing a suspense series. I was nervous. Could I do it? Or should I make it just slight more suspense-ish than my other books? I called up my editor. Her advice? Lean in. Go full romantic suspense. Just do it—in your voice. (In other words: Don’t lose the sizzle or the banter.)
And that was how Firelight Ridge came to be! This series has so many elements I love. To balance out the rugged remote wilderness of the setting, it focuses on four very close friends, who will each experience their own romantic adventure in Alaska. It might be suspense, but it’s still romance—expect a happy ending for each of these intrepid heroines.
The first book, ICE FALLS, is out now, so you can take your first journey into the wilds of Alaska with Molly Evans and the pilot Sam Coburn!
From USA TODAY Bestselling Author Jennifer Bernard comes a new sizzling suspense series set in the Alaskan wilderness.
From childhood misfit to successful attorney, Molly Evans wouldn’t be the strong, independent force of nature she is today without the support of her three best friends—and one of them is missing. On a mission to find answers, she tracks Lila all the way to Firelight Ridge, Alaska, a wild outpost where Molly sticks out like a sore thumb in her designer duds and desperate search for Wi-Fi. Regardless, just days after arriving, she can’t resist getting sucked into the mystery surrounding a local’s death, a group of reclusive settlers…and a surly but undeniably attractive pilot.
Sam Coburn has carefully cultivated a lone-wolf persona since moving to Firelight Ridge, necessary for a job he’s reluctantly agreed to take on. Then Molly Evans steps onto his plane, and he just knows the gorgeous redhead is about to make his life interesting. She’s as fierce as she is feisty…and it’s not long before she inadvertently provides him access to an isolated wilderness family he’s tried and failed to get close to for over a year. But it turns out they are excessively interested in Molly…a potentially dangerous turn of events Sam didn’t see coming.
Throw in a teen runaway, a shooting, sexual attraction as dazzling as the endless Alaska sky, and a potentially catastrophic event, and Sam and Molly’s breathtaking adventure could end up either life-altering…or life-ending.