With menacing forces in the driver's seat and time ticking too fast, the two must win the biggest race of all.the race for their lives and their love.

And when Celeste's life is threatened by someone who clearly knows her real identity, Beau has to risk everything - including his own life - to save her. Beau needs Celeste to save a man's life - he never expected a high-octane attraction that could wreck his well-protected heart. But with her love life on the skids and her family life in a tailspin, escaping incognito into Beau's world is just what she needs - especially if she can get answers about her past.

Stunned at the secret Beau reveals, Celeste is forced to make a life-altering decision. Claire puts the pedal to the metal in a story of intrigue and passion that will get your heart racing! When sexy NASCAR racer Beau Lansing tracks down high society debutante Celeste Bennett, it's a matter of life or death. Howington is an American best-selling romance author writing under the pseudonym Linda Howard. She has three grown stepchildren and three grandchildren.He's fast. Linda lives in Gadsden, Alabama, with her husband and two golden retrievers.

She is a charter member of Romance Writers of America and in 2005 was awarded their Career Achievement Award. Heart of Fire by Linda Howard - A fabulous lost Amazon city once inhabited by women warriors and containing a rare red diamond: it sounded like myth. Linda Howard Buy This Book Take a pretty, sexually-repressed archaeologist, and a tall, blue-eyed, sexually-charged river guide, add a rare red diamond, a lost civilization, a treasure map, and hot sex in the cool rain, and well, things are looking really good Jillian Sherwood is an archaeologist. She has written many New York Times bestsellers, including Up Close and Dangerous, Drop Dead Gorgeous, Cover of Night, Killing Time, To Die For, Kiss Me While I Sleep, Cry No More, and Dying to Please. Howington is a bestselling romance author writing under the pseudonym Linda Howard. Neither of them could foresee what the days ahead promised: An odyssey into the fiery heart of passion and betrayal, and a danger that would force them to cast their fates together, immersed in the eternal, unsolved mysteries of love. Jillian watched him come to a fast boil when she refused to reveal their exact destination upriver in the uncharted rain forests-and resolved to stand her ground. Ruffian, knock-about, and number one river guide in Brazil, Ben was all man-over six feet of rock-hard muscles that rippled under his khakis, with lazy blue eyes that taunted her from his tanned face. Book Synopsis A fabulous lost Amazon city once inhabited by women warriors and containing a rare red diamond: it sounded like myth, but archaeologist Jillian Sherwood believed it was real, and she was willing to put up with anything to find it-even Ben Lewis. About the Book An original publication of Pocket Books-T.p.

Heart of fire by linda howard