Jamie Kincaid's cousin Nate died at his best friend Dillon Gaynor's garage in Wisconsin. Since Dillon was a felon convicted for fighting and almost killing someone, he was questioned in connection with the crime, but he was released and no other suspects found, so the case went unsolved. It's one year later and there are still no answers, so Jamie's mother sends her to Wisconsin to investigate. When she confronts Dillon, she is reminded of the crush she had on her cousin's best friend and the night she has spent the last 10 years trying to forget. There are many things Jamie doesn't understand about that night, but Dillon is an angry recovering alcoholic, and doesn't want to be reminded of his past. Jamie knows she can't face her mother if she leaves, so she stubbornly stays until strange things start happening at Dillon's garage. Is there a ghost haunting the garage or is there something more sinister at work?
Into the Fire starts out with an interesting premise, but gets weaker as the story goes along. Jamie is hard to like because she is unable to look at herself critically and seems to make the same mistakes over and over. Dillon is also hard to like because doesn't take action even though he suspects there is something strange going on in his garage. The book does have a great deal of suspense, which makes the story move quickly. Overall, a decent story worth reading, but had potential to be much more. ( )

My favorite book of all time. It draws you in to a dark steamy place you won't want to leave. I love how Anne Stuart creates fascinating characters, both good and bad, that you want to keep reading about. I love her series' as well, but this stands as a shining stand alone of her writing prowess. ( )

There are some great moments in this story but there's also a heroine who is almost too stupid to live and a hero who has to angst over everything regularly and who believes that good sex will overcome rape trauma. Yeah.

There were times when I wanted to yell at the author for some of the leaps of faith that she takes us through and some of it was just plain unbelievable. Yes the main character is naive but she stretches my belief a lot. Jamie Kincaid is a teacher (which even if it was an elite boarding school should have rubbed some of the innocent off) who is going to find out what happened to her cousin, Nate. She has to revisit some old wounds and deal with Dillon Gaynor, the bad boy who apparently steered Nate down a path of wrong.

And yes, in other hands this could have been a great story but Stuart turned it into bah and whuh. I have read a few of her stories and some of the scenes, particularly the sex, feel tacked on in an afterthought. ( )

romantic suspensish. It was just okay. The plot was pretty thin. The heroine was pretty wimpish. I don't mind a bad boy hero but he never really redeemed himself. He never told her he loved her and I just like to have that in my romances especially when the suspense element is so light as it was here. ( )

Very suspensful and somewhat surprising ending (Nate wasn't a ghost). I didn't like Dillon in the beginning. His actions toward Jamie were borderline rape. ( )