Tropical Fire

by Jean Innes

Alone and injured in a lifeboat after a shipwreck, Caroline Rowe is saved and brought to a tropical island, where she must learn to love her rescuer, Luke Garston, who has lived away from civilization for years. Original.

444 pages, Mass Market Paperback

First published November 1, 1992

About the author

Jean Innes was born on 8 February 1932 in London, England, but she have lived in the West Country almost all her life. She married with Geoff Saunders, her childhood sweetheart, and they have three grown up children. She lived in Weston-Super-Mare, Somerset, where she wrote full time. She passed away on 3 August 2011, after contracting an illness, after being rushed to Weston General Hospital.

Jean began her career as a magazine writer and had published around 600 short stories. She start to published gothic romance novels under her married name Jean Saunders and her maiden name Jean Innes in the 1970s. In 1980s, she created, to wrote historical romances, two pseudonyms, her most popular, Rowena Summers and Sally Blake. In 1991 her novel, "The Bannister Girls," was shortlisted for the Romantic Novel of Year award. In 2004, she began to used the penname Rachel Moore.

She was an active member and enthusiast of Swanwick, the Writers' Summer School, which takes place in Derbyshire, England, every August, she was a committee member several times, and also Vice-Chairman. She was elected the seventeenth Chairman (1993-1995) of the Romantic Novelists' Association. As a member of the Romance Writers of America she had given talks at conferences in various venues of the USA. She was a member of the Crime Writers' Association. She also was a member and past committee member of the West Country Writers' Association.

Reviews

[Angela Koerber · Rating 4 out of 5]

This was one of my Nana’s books I got from her house after she passed last month. I always remembered her reading books like this with half naked people on the front. 🤣 I loved that the book takes you back in time. I love anything old like this. But, I was not crazy impressed with the characters in the book. I still enjoyed the book.

[Melinda · Rating 2 out of 5]

There's a story here. When I was a tween I read this book. Ok, maybe a teen, but a young one. Anyway, I loooved it. I was very into romances then. And this was my very fav romance. Luke was so hot lol. And I imagined I was Caroline. Well, anyway, I moved away from home. All the belongings I left got moved into a little room in the old barn lol. And then..well who knows what happened to all my stuff. Anyway, years later, I wanted to read this book again. But I couldn't find it 'anywhere'. My bestie and I searched and searched..had 'The book lady' searching for us. And yay, finally I opened up one of my Xmas prezzies from the bestie..and it was this book! Woohoo! I was so happy. Funny thing is... it's not so good now, lol. What-was-I-thinking? *shrugs* All that wait..and I dunno..it's only a 3 star book. But still..I'm never letting it go ha ha.

[Jenni · Rating 3 out of 5]

Stubbornness. That is what this entire book is based on: a stubborn girl who fights against her feelings and a stubborn man who won't communicate. I enjoyed the fresh setting. However, an epilogue should have been included.