Through Fire
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5.0 • 4 Ratings
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- £4.99
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- £4.99
Publisher Description
Violence corroded her…
Obedience defiled her…
Fear kept her chained…
Freedom is hard to embrace when she's never learned to trust. Yet in the span of a second, she grabs a single opportunity and runs toward it. Straight into the sanctuary of a pub at the end of a wharf.
She doesn't understand the concept of friendship. She's never felt the connection of a relationship. She's as innocent as the driven snow and yet tainted with corruption. Still, she finds herself surrounded by people who accept her, without even knowing the first thing about her. But one of them is determined to dig deeper.
He treasures his friends, yet he's steered clear of committed relationships. He likes his life comfortably predictable and entirely controlled. Until it isn't. For months he's avoided interacting with The Skipper's newest addition. Perhaps realizing that once he looked deeply into those liquid brown eyes, he wouldn't be able to turn away.
When his present and her past puts them both on the brink of change, they are forged through fire as one.
**Due to some content of a sexually explicit nature, this book is recommended for a mature audience only.**
Customer Reviews
Madre de Dios!!!!
Madre de Dios!!! (to quote our leading lady, Ruby) Freya Barker has done it again!!
From one of, in my humble opinion, the best series EVER.... Through Fire is a gut wrenching, heart-breaking story but as we've come to expect from Freya, it's also filled with hope, strength, heat and a really strong sense of family...
Ms Barker writes REAL.... Her stories are full of very real issues: at times it's hard going and upsetting, the tales aren't pretty and the situations our main characters (the leading ladies in particular in the Portland, ME series) find themselves in are dark, scary, totally incomprehensible, horrendously shocking and unbelievably brutal, but they are also what we read/hear about in the news (sadly on a near regular basis it seems) - they are things that we know are happening in the world around us but that we cannot begin to understand as, in the main, most of us will fortunately never be thrust into these dark and horrendous situations.
Through her writing and storytelling Freya gives us an insight into the misery and devastation that her characters experience - but she also shows us just how strong people can be that they can survive these nightmares and not only come out the other side but do so with determination, strength of character and an overwhelming desire to LIVE.
For me, Ruby's story is the darkest and hardest to read of the series to date but she is a fantastic character who, with the support of friends and 'chosen family' at the The Skipper, manages to overcome her demons and look towards a future that she never considered she'd ever have..
Tim is the leading man in Through Fire - we've met him previously in the series and I must admit that after some of his actions and attitude in Cruel Water (book #2) he wasn't my favourite fella but I'm happy to admit that my feelings towards his character definitely changed whilst reading his and Ruby's book.
Packed with suspense, intrigue, attraction, heat and passion and featuring the well loved characters that we have already met in the series to date, Through Fire is an exceptional read and another fantastic instalment in the Portland, ME series.
If you've already dipped your toe into the writing of Freya Barker this book will be a hit with you. For those who haven't yet tried any of her books I recommend that you give them a chance - you will not be disappointed.