Product Description

The Hot Line is an on-call service that dispatches totally authentic, fully equipped firemen to explore the secret desires of women in need. It's an irresistible dare for three best friends wanting to feel the heat: a curious reporter, a talented lingerie designer, and a chef who loves things spicy. Each one is going to make her hottest firefighter fantasies come to life in these three thrilling novellas.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #156538 in Books
• Published on: 2008-03-04
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 288 pages

About the Author
Cathryn Fox has written several erotic romances for Ellora's Cave and Avon Red. She lives in Eastern Canada with her husband, two kids, and a chocolate Labrador retriever.

Customer Reviews

Five Alarm Hot with a weak plot.........3 1/2 stars
Are you burning up? In need of some hunky firefighter, who carries a hose and knows his way around fires, to douse your flames? Then call 555-HEAT and help will be on its way.

At least thats what these heroines found in each of their stories. Three seriously sexually frustrated women, who happen to be in Chicago for their friend's wedding, find themselves attracted (thats putting it mildly) to the firefighter groomsmen. These men, aside from their firefighting duties, work to answer a *HOT LINE*. A woman calls, and a man is dispatched to take care of her needs asap. Whether she needs: ample research for a sexy story, to break out of her shell and bring out her inner exhibitionist (with more than one man), or she is in serious need of pampering and tender loving care, they've got a man for the job. And they guarantee to leave you satisfied.

This book was OK. Its geared towards those who are looking for short erotic reads. And if you can get past the fact that these men are, in essence, prostituting themselves then you might find this book extremely titillating. Basically it prescribes to the hot sex = love notion. Not much plot here, in fact there is not much talking at all. More like a ton of moaning and grunting/growling. Just lots and LOTS of sex. And if it wasn't actually stated that the hero's are fire fighters, the readers would have no idea. Because they don't fight fires! At least not those that burn down buildings.

As an aside, readers should be warned that the second story contains menage a trios (which is NOT disclosed on the back cover blurb -hate when publishers do that!). The characters are all interesting (that is, when they are actually talking) enough in their own way. And the plot moves along nicely. Fortunately, Fox (author) adds a bit of variety to each of her stories, so the sex scenes don't become monotonous.

Definitely a light and super steamy read. I suspect fans of Ellora's Cave and followers of Lora Leigh and Sarah Mccarty will enjoy this anthology. Not really my cup of tea. I prefer more developed plots and characters (and skip the menage).

So if your in the mood to indulge your secret fire fighter fantasy, this scorching read may be up your alley.

good but....
I picked up this book on a whim and it was good but sometimes the language between the two lovers was so cheesy! I kept saying to myself 'A man would NEVER say that!'

5 Klovers - Courtesy of CK2S Kwips & Kritiques
Could anything be hotter than a hunky fireman head over heels in love? Yep. How about THREE hunky firemen head over heels in love?? Cathryn Fox delivers the goods in her novel The Hot Line, releasing March 4, 2008. This collection of sensual romances revolving around a firehouse in Chicago is just the thing to usher in the warmer months this spring!

This particular firehouse has a special number for women looking for a night of unforgettable passion with a fireman ready and willing to fulfill their fondest fantasies. But three firemen in particular stoke the blaze a lot hotter when they turn up the heat on the women of their dreams!

~Fever~

Working for a small town paper back in Trenton, Iowa is hardly the stuff a reporter's dreams are made of. When Sara Jack is given the exclusive number for The Hot Line, she knows she has stumbled into a career-making story that will guarantee her a job at a big Chicago newspaper. It's all about the story - that's the only reason she is calling The Hot Line. Yeah, right...

Mitch Adams is a no-strings attached playboy, good for a fling but not into relationships. That's the warning Sara's friend Cassie gives her concerning the sexy firefighter. Suddenly, nothing sounds better than an out of town fling with none other than Mitch himself, and The Hot Line is her ticket to a night of pleasure she is sure Mitch can deliver on. But flings have a way of becoming so much more when you least expect it...

Although I loved all of the men in The Hot Line, I think that Mitch Adams is my favorite. Maybe it is the whole misunderstood bad boy who has just never found the right woman thing he has going on, but he totally got to me. He may be a playboy at first, but that certainly all seems to change for him the moment he lays eyes on charming small town girl, Sara.

And what isn't there to like about Sara? Although delightfully guileless, she doesn't hesitate at participation in some very sexy role playing games with the hunky fireman of her dreams, showing him she is more than eager to fulfill his own fantasies - something that takes him very much by surprise.

With their easy banter and inventive role-playing, this couple entertains us with a fun and light-hearted romance that made me giggle more than once. But don't let those giggles fool you - there is more than enough heat to go along with those laughs in this hot little story!

~Sirens~

Jenna Powers has come a long way from the chubby little girl with braces she used to be to a beautiful and talented lingerie designer with her own budding business. Scheduled to do an important lingerie show by her friend Cassie, things turn disastrous when her model falls ill at the very last minute. With no available stand-in, things turn even more disastrous - Jenna must model her lingerie personally.

The only thing going right is that the sexy fireman she's been fantasizing about left before the show started. If she has to make a fool out of herself, at least it won't be in front of Dean Beckman...

Dean can hardly believe his eyes when he returns from a liquor run to find Jenna modeling a Siren-red negligee in front of a room full of people! He's been dreaming of seeing the buxom beauty in the lingerie she designs, but never thought he would have the chance. But Dean is never one to let an opportunity slip by him...

I said earlier in this review that Mitch was my favorite, but Dean Beckman sure did give him a run for his money! With a unique blend of subtle dominance and sensitivity heightened by his psychology studies, Dean is quick to recognize Jenna's physical insecurities and resolves to see her through them. Refusing to let her hide from either him or herself, he forces her to see herself through his eyes, to feel her own beauty and femininity, giving her a gift as precious as his love - self-confidence.

What woman has never experience insecurities similar to those that prey on Jenna's confidence? Having spent her youth overweight and teased by her classmates, she has never shaken the image of herself as frumpy, even though her looks have certainly grown out of that description. Although uncertain at first, she follows Dean's lead and allows him to employ a rather unorthodox method of changing her self-image...

Once they work past her issues, they embark on some very steamy love scenes guaranteed to set off sparks worthy of any five-alarm fire!

~Flash Fire~

Sous Chef Megan Wagner has a way of speaking before thinking, and what she is usually thinking about these days is the hotter than hot firefighter Brady Wade. Brady, in turn, has a way of turning her words and the situation to their mutual advantage in the sexiest of ways...

But Brady isn't out for a quick romp, he wants forever with the sassy little cook. Convincing divorcee Megan he is nothing like her deadbeat ex-husband is going to take some work, but he has cooked up a plan guaranteed to sweep her off her feet...

The third story in Ms. Fox's The Hot Line is perhaps one of the most poignant. Here is a woman who, having been burned badly before, is afraid to trust in love again. Too many of us can identify with Megan on this score. Although afraid to open herself up emotionally, it does not prevent her from enjoying a little one on one with Brady, which is just the first step in his multi-layered plan to slip past her defenses.

Doing for others comes naturally for Brady, and doing for Megan is more than his pleasure. And that is his secret weapon to showing Megan how completely opposite he is from her ex, who expected everything to be done for him.

In the end, Megan realizes what Brady is offering and is surprised to find herself eager and ready to take him up on it - a loving partnership of equals in a give and take relationship that has all it needs to go the distance.