REVIEW: High Heat by Annabeth Albert

Dear Annabeth Albert,

High Heat is book 2 in your Hotshots series, set in and around the firefighting/forestry community in the fictional Central Oregon town of Painter’s Ridge. I haven’t read the first book, Burn Zone (it’s on the TBR), but it’s not necessary to have done so to enjoy this novel – it stands alone well.

Garrick Nelson is a “smoke jumper” – the kind of firefighter who jump out of planes in the middle of forest fires. It’s a dangerous, high risk job. A fairly common way smoke jumper...