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    Fire and Ice: A Novel

    Written by Julie Garwood

    Narrated by Rebecca Lowman

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    Sophie Rose, a tough and determined newspaper reporter, is the daughter of Bobby Rose, a suave, charming, and handsome gentleman who also happens to be a notorious big-time thief sought by every law-enforcement agency in the country. When the major Chicago daily where she works insists she write an exposé about her roguish father, Sophie refuses, quits her job, and goes to work at a small newspaper. Far from her onetime high-powered crime beat, she now covers local personalities such as the quirky winner of several area 5K runs whose trademark is goofy red socks.

    Those red socks-with Sophie's business card neatly tucked inside-are practically all that's found after runner William Harrington's shredded corpse turns up in Prudhoe Bay, Alaska, the victim of a mysteriously dramatic death by polar bear. With an unerring nose for a good story, Sophie heads north to Alaska.

    What she doesn't realize is that her father's infamous reputation has spread even to the far reaches of Prudhoe Bay. Sophie's assigned a bodyguard-Jack MacAlister, a sexy FBI agent who grudgingly takes the assignment while recovering from an on-duty injury. But they will soon be fighting more than growing passion.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPenguin Random House Audio
    Release dateDec 30, 2008
    ISBN9780739357637
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    Fire and Ice: A Novel
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    Julie Garwood

    Julie Garwood (1944--2023) was the author of numerous New York Times bestsellers, including Fire and Ice, Shadow Music, Shadow Dance, Murder List, Killjoy, Mercy, Heartbreaker, Ransom, and Come the Spring. There are more than thirty-six million copies of her books in print.

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    • 4/5
      I've always considered Julie Garwood to be one of my go to authors, but I think this series has run too long. Now it is follow a formula of what works, just change the names of the characters.
    • 4/5
      Sophie Rose is a determined woman. She has broken all financial ties with her infamous father and has struck out on her own as a newspaper reporter. She has the complete support of her two best friends and her new boss. Now if the FBI would just stop trying to bug her and realize that she is not the direct pipeline to her infamous father the notorious big-time modern day Robin Hood. Her job at the small town newspaper, puts her in contact with a man that may give her some valuable information, but, it seems he has disappeared.

      These books are not deep, compelling novels or even great literature. They are fun, enjoyable reads with her typical humorous writing style. I enjoy the fact that most of them have all been about one family group and their friends. Ireally like books that bring back characters from other books as supporting charcters. I would recommend this book to anyone who enjoys contemporary romantic suspense with a touch of humor.
    • 3/5
      2.5* for the book itself with an extra half star for the audiobook narrationI read the first 6 books in this series years ago and my tastes have changed a bit. What I mean by that is that I don't think that this book is worse than the earlier books but that I enjoyed it less because I no longer really like reading about sex scenes. I guess that I have turned into a prude but now I would rather have the details of these intimate encounters to be left to my imagination.I also felt that there were some glaring clues that Sophie, despite her journalist experience and training, didn't notice. One of these was brought to light (the fact that one of her phone callers had given a fake identity) but one was never addressed (why was William Harrington still dressed in the running clothes he was wearing the last time Sophie saw him at the time of his death? He must have been or Sophie's card wouldn't have still been tucked into his sock!)
    • 5/5
      I loved it
    • 4/5
      very entertaining. one chapter would not play but it didn't seem to make a big difference
    • 1/5
      Fluff story about a reporter, the daughter of a fugitive father who the authorities are looking for. Odd journal entries about some folks studying wolves in Alaska interspersed in the tale, that ended up being just plain irritating. I stopped listening after about the third tape.
    • 3/5
      This is the 2nd book in a series. This seems to be a popular writing method these days for romance/mysteries. It keeps from having to invent so many characters, I guess. As in most of these books, the main character is a childhood friend of the heroine of book one and also the soon to follow book three. She gets involved & falls in love with the best friend of husband #1. All these series are getting a bit tiring. It is not necessary to have read book #1 first, at least. The story is somewhat interesting in the scenes in Alaska and on the testing of some sort of naturally produced enzyme in the wolves being studied there. This is a beach book. Nothing heavy, but the characters are fun.
    • 2/5
      Sophie Rose, a reporter for a marginal Chicago newspaper, is a person of interest to enough government agencies to make great alphabet soup, and for nothing she's done. Her father, a modern day Robin Hood, makes a habit of stealing from the rich and giving to the poor - and of staying one step ahead of the police. So Sophie's used to taps on her phone and semi-polite invitations downtown to answer a few questions.But when one of her more boring interviewees turn up (or mostly) in Alaska with one of her business cards tucked into his signature red running socks, she's in a whole lot more trouble than her father ever got her into.Enter Jack MacAlister - an unintentional YouTube star, the semi-disgraced FBI agent just may be Sophie's only hope.I wanted to enjoy this book, I really did. But the writing didn't have Garwood's usual flow. The plot was needlessly complicated, the humor seemed forced and mechanical, and the quirky characters weren't. Not a keeper.
    • 4/5
      I really enjoyed this book. As part of the Buchannan series I was expecting to see more of that family in it. The main character's best friend is married to Alec Buchannan, and he does have a smaller role in the novel, but definitelt not a main character. That was a bit disappointing, but overall a good book, worth the read!
    • 4/5
      I have read all of the Buchannan series, and I kind of like the idea of this spin off. Sophie is one of the friends of the girl who marries one of the Buchannan brothers in Murder List . I like that we are revisiting, and getting to know some of the characters from that book a little better, as we as introducing a few new ones. Garwood has a gift for inventing characters that are unique and memorable. Their quirks make for a fun read. Also, this one had an appropriate twist at the end, and so had great payoff for me. I’m glad I read this one in spring and not winter, because just reading about the parts that took place in Alaska made me cold. I may have had frost bite if it had been winter. Garwood tends to be a light read, but there is always enough exciting moments, and enough romance to make it worth the read, and this one lived up to expectations. =D
    • 4/5
      Really loved this one. Julie always manages to create characters who grab me and won't let go. However, she also excels at surrounding these characters with interesting stories as well. I enjoyed learning more about Sophie and I know I enjoyed getting to know Jack because my one nitpick with the book was that there were two points that hinted at something more Jack was hiding that never mentioned again once the two characters were more comfortable with each other. I couldn't tell if I was just reading more into those moments or if it was something that just got dropped. Either way, that was the only part of the book that bothered me. Overall, it was yet another favorite by Julia.
    • 4/5
      I love Garwood's early historical fiction, but I haven't enjoyed the contemporary so much. This one is, happily, a good contemporary.. I'd rank it up with some of Mary Stewart's romantic suspense novels. The romantic tension between Jack and Sophie was fun to read. The whole "Alpha project" was a bit unbelievable, but still I enjoyed the story.
    • 3/5
      Entertaining flluff of a read with the plucky heroine and manly hero done with humor and readability, but the suspense portion was less than compelling and the pages from the villain's diary interspersed between chapters was more annoying than suspenseful. I prefer Garwood's historicals.
    • 5/5
      Julie Garwood's newest contemporary "Fire and Ice" is a fast-moving, exhilarating read with an unlikely lead couple and a twisting mystery. The heroine was introduced in "Murder List", but now Sophie gets her own story, and her own FBI hero!Sophie has left her big journalist job to work at a smaller paper outside Chicago. At least this editor agrees not to pump Sophie for information about her father! But when her father is implicated (again) in a possible crime, Sophie prepares herself for another round of questioning from various government agencies, not to mention threats from his enemies. Then one of Sophie's local intereste interviewee's turns up dead...in Alaska...eaten by a polar bear! Surely a trip to the frozen north will give Sophie a break, and it couldn't hurt for her to have a little distance from totally unsuitable Jack MacAlister.Jack would have to be dead from the neck down not to notice how attractive Sophie is. But Bobby Rose's daughter? How inappropriate is that? Too bad that it seems Jack's libido isn't listening. And when Sophie is injured, Jack quickly realizes that she could use a little muscle on her trip to the frozen wastes of Alaska. And good thing Jack's handy with a gun when it appears Sophie's trip didn't deter someone who wants her dead!Several different stories come together and require the reader to track carefully if they want to figure out who's trying to kill Sophie, and why. The banter and sizzling attraction between Sophie and Jack add just the right amount of humor and heat to Garwood's latest romantic suspense. Another hit for me and one I couldn't put down till the end.