GRR Reviews On A Night Like This (Callaways Book 1) by Barbara Freethy

On a Night Like This is about two damaged people coming together, one suffered a bit of amnesia and desperate for answers, other found a bit of family secret that made her question everything she thought she knew about herself.

Aiden Callaway is a smokejumper (a forest firefighter), until something went very wrong. His best friend Kyle died on the job. and he awoke at the bottom of a ravine, only recalling fragments of what had happened. Everybody assumed he had f***ed up somehow. The only way out would be to put the blame on the dead man, which he was unwilling to do. Upon arrival at his home, he had to rescue a neighbor from a house fire, and found himself face to face with Sara. Sara was the good girl and Aiden was the bad boy from way back when. They never hooked up, but that's because Aiden turned her down... even when she threw herself at him that one drunken night. She's now back in town, hoping to reconnect with her father, who somehow never liked her, and something in the basement of her father's smoke-charred house made her realize her life may have been a lie... and the only one she could turn to was Aiden, in search of his own truth...

I personally found the romance to be a bit forced. Sure they were neighbors, sure they had a history once, but is that enough so they are the only ones to turn to for each other? But the background, the mystery, and more sure made the book above average.

Category: Contemporary

Primary Plot: A forest firefighter in crisis met a girl who just had her life turned upside down; can they solve each other's problems?

Tropes: firefighter, amnesia, family secrets, woman in peril, man in peril, rescue, conspiracy

Overall Rating:  4/5