{Book Tour Review} Burn by Ruth Clampett (@RuthyWrites)

​Title: Burn
Author: Ruth Clampett
Genre: Contemporary Romance
Series: L.A. Untamed
Publication Date: June 7th
Cover Designer: Jada D'Lee of Jada D'Lee Designs
 
Where there's smoke, there's fire...
 
And I would know.
As the only woman in a squad of firefighters,
They call me T-Rex.
I’m fierce, fearless and I get the job done.
 
I've got a past that hurt me, nearly destroyed me.
Who doesn't?
But I'm no damsel in distress...
I fight my own battles, my own wars and my own fires.
 
Now I’m sizzling for my lieutenant, Joe Murphy, and that’s one fire I don’t want to put out.
But it’s a complicated situation. A hot and wild situation.
When things spiral out of control should I fight for the new life I was trying to build . . . or just let it burn?

​The guys at the station house don’t call Tricia “T-Rex” for nothing.  She’s as strong as the nickname implies.  But finding her husband in flagrante with one of his employees is enough to make even her stumble.
 
Tricia may be down, but she’s far from out.  She’s at the top of her game as a firefighter in Los Angeles and she’s determined to not allow the chaos of her personal life to affect that.  And then she falls for Joe…

I want to drink all the attention in until I’m drunk with it. He better stop with this stuff or I’ll have the most epic crush in history on him that will destroy me when it undoubtedly goes unrequited. He already sports my favorite look in a man: strong, masculine features, dark blue eyes, thick black hair, and a built, solid body.

​I sigh inwardly. I’m not exactly a man magnet, and there’s not a single reason to think that Joe Murphy, the giant, would be any different. Before I get up to leave I stare at his hands as he spreads his fingers over the desktop. It’s like watching porn, those strong, rough fingers spreading apart and closing. Holy hell. If rebounding is a religion, I’m ready to be baptized in the church of Joe, just to have those big manly hands on me. 

​Lieutenant Joe Murphy has his hands full keeping the station house running smoothly.  He has always been aware of Tricia in ways that would shock her if she knew and now that her marriage is over, he might just stand a chance. 
 
Together, they will have to overcome the betrayal of their past, the dangers of their job and the insanity of world that surrounds them or their one chance at true love will be reduced to ashes.

“I’m sorry I’m not easy,” I say with a sigh.

“I don’t want easy. I want real. You are real. I want you.”

“Is that a haiku?”

“Shut up, woman.”

Fighting back a smile, I press my lips together. “Did you forget how good my pitching arm is? Tell me to shut up again and I’ll nail you with that stapler on the edge of your desk.”

While still holding me, Joe opens up the desk drawer, sets the stapler inside, and closes it.
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“Shut up and kiss me,” he whispers with a teasing tone, and a twinkle his eye. 

​Burn is a fabulously smart romance as only Ruth Clampett can write!  If you've read any of her books,  you know that her characters are the reason that her stories are so extraordinary - Tricia is a refreshing dichotomy of strong and vulnerable while Joe is a perfect blend of swoony and intense.
 
It’s deliriously funny while being so sizzling hot that they just might have to take a fire hose to you.  And you’ll never look at Buzz Lightyear in quite the same way again…

Exclusive Excerpt - 

​Why the hell did you let me kiss you that night?”

 I purse my lips. “I don’t know.”

​“You. Don’t. Know.” He says it again without the dramatic pauses, “You don’t know.”

“Nope.” Why the hell am I lying? What the hell is wrong with me?

He turns to me with an infuriated expression and dark, angry eyes. I know it’s messed up but I think he looks hot. I didn’t realize how much I’d miss him and now that he’s sitting in front of me every one of my nerve endings are on fire. He just looks so damn good.

What the hell is happening to me? I just took a shower, dried off, and now I’m wet between my legs. I want to climb his tree, butter his biscuit, and ride him like a stallion … all at the same time. Good Lord.

Leaning forward, he rests his elbows on his sexy knees. A second later he rips off his leather jacket, and as he pulls it off his sleeve pushes up and I see the edge of a tat. My nipples get hard. I swear they do.

“Okay, McNeill. Here’s the thing. Have you read the Station Book of Rules and Regulations? There’s a rule about fraternization on page twenty-eight.”

He’s staring straight ahead, but he shakes his head and slaps his knees. “Okay then, so whatever happened between us night before last, let’s just pretend that it never happened okay?”

“Sure,” I say.

“You stay away from me, and I’ll stay away from you.”

“Right,” I agree while pressing my thighs together and wondering if I have a pair of clean panties. I hope so because the ones I’m wearing are getting wetter and will definitely need to be changed.

“So you’re fine staying away from me?” he asks, his voice a little choked.

“Yeah. I guess so,” I reply in a low voice as I rest my hand on his thigh. Damn his thigh is hard as a rock. I’m surprised but pleased that he doesn’t push my hand away.

His gaze drops down to where my hand is placed and he lets out a long breath. “And I’m not going to kiss you, even though I knew you really liked it when I did, but I’m sorry … no can do.”

I want to laugh at that one, and how insincere he sounds, but I can’t because I’m too busy trying to keep my panties from combusting. I’m pretty sure they’re my only clean pair.

 “You know, I’m pretty sure you liked it too.” As I spread and tighten my fingers over his leg, I swear the heat rising up from him is burning my hand.

My thighs are actually quivering. I look down to observe the phenomenon. I’m pretty sure they’ve never done that before. So to test them I rise up, swing my leg over and shift until I’m straddling Lieutenant Joe Murphy. When I fully sink down onto his lap I receive the information that maybe he likes me being there.

 “Oh God,” he moans with a dizzy look like he’s going to pass out. “What are you doing?”

Leaning in, I whisper in his ear. “Sitting on you. I like how this feels.” I wiggle and sink farther into his lap.

He nods, closes his eyes for a moment and takes a deep breath. When he opens them again, I swear I see fire.

“What do you want?” he asks, his hands resting on my hips.

“How about just a kiss? Kind of to test things out again,” I whisper as I place a hand on either side of his face and pull him toward me.
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When our lips meet this time I’m the one kissing him and I kiss him like I mean business. I put my heart and soul into this kiss, my lips consuming his breath, his heartbeat, his heat. I feel his grip on me tighten as he presses his fingers into my flesh. I moan long and deep when he pulls me down over where he’s hard for me. Damn, like everything about him, he’s big. So big.

About The Author - 

​Ruth Clampett is a 21st century woman, aspiring to be Wonder Woman…now if she could only find her cape and magic lasso. Meanwhile she’s juggling motherhood, a full-time job running her own art business, and writing romance late at night. Travel is her second obsession after writing, and it’s enabled her to meet reader and writer friends all over the world. She’s happily frazzled, and wouldn’t change a thing about her crazy life.
 
The rooms in her home are all painted different colors and her books are equally varied, infusing humor, drama, and passion into the romantic lives of strong heroines and their worthy and determined counterparts.
 
Ruth has published seven books: Animate Me, Mr. 365, the Work of Art Trilogy, WET and BURN. She grew up and still happily resides in Los Angeles, and is heavily supervised by her teenage daughter, lovingly referred to as Snarky, who loves traveling with her mom with a sketchbook in hand.

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