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Seeing Fireworks

by Elaine Coffman, Victoria Barrett, Ashland Price, Trana Mae Simmons

Published 1997336 pagesISBN 978-0-3129-6258-6

This collection of four dazzling stories proves that falling in love has all the excitement of a brilliant fireworks display. **Playing With Fire** by *Elaine Coffman* finds Susan Klein's birthday fireworks starting a dangerous brush fire. But rancher Wyatt Whittaker has fireworks of a different kind in mind for the charming city woman. **Summer Fling** by *Victoria Barrett* finds passion sparking between old college friends Anne Hayden and Adam Weston during a sultry Fourth of July weekend. Will they let the embers die or grow into a blazing fire? **One Star-Spangled Night** by *Ashland Price* unites a modern-day nurse, Alison Kimball, with wounded Revolutionary War Officer Richard Adams in a history-making romance. **Showers and Sparks** by *Trana Mae Simmons* links free spirit Gerrie Cartwright with stick-in-the-mud Judge Zachariah Brenham. But the powers of love can set fire to even the slowest of heroes, and by the Fourth of July, passion is exploding like the fireworks in the sky overhead. Celebrating the Fourth of July has never before been this much fun!

Beyond its central premise, the book can be read through the connected lenses of Romance, Fiction. Those themes offer useful points of attention as the characters, ideas, or world develop, especially where the book complicates the expectations of its primary category.

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Themes to notice

Romance · Fiction

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Reading experience

Dark tone · Measured pace

A comfortable full-length choice for steady daily reading.

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Seeing FireworksElaine Coffman, Victoria Barrett, Ashland Price, Trana Mae Simmons
Powerful4.8/5

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Reading lengthA standard-length read336 pages in this edition
Publication eraModernFirst published or edition dated 1997
Primary categoryRomanceAlso cataloged under Fiction
ISBN-13
978-0-3129-6258-6
Language
English
Edition record
OL10418130M
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A comfortable full-length choice for steady daily reading.

Begin with its place in Romance, then notice where the book resists that label.

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Read for connection, not completion.

Mark one passage that sharpens the book's central concern and one that complicates it. That tension often reveals more than a quick summary.

Three questions to carry with you

  1. What must each character learn before the relationship can become believable?
  2. How do work, family, friendship, or identity shape the central relationship?
  3. Does the emotional resolution feel earned by the choices that came before it?

Editorial framework by Wesley Bryan, BookenDeX Founder and Editor.