The Spark Between Us by Stacy Travis

The Spark Betweens Us by Stacy Travis

The Spark Between Us by Stacy Travis

Rating: 4.5 Stars

Hot Roommate Romance Will Make You Swoon
What you need to know about “The Spark Between Us”:
✔ Opposites Attract
✔ Dual Point of View
✔ Roommate Romance
✔ Sarah Finley, scientist
✔ Braden Michaels, firefighter
✔ Forced Proximity
✔ Can be read as a Complete Standalone
✔ Berkeley Hills Series #3

Sarah Finley is a brilliant scientist with her PhD and a desire for a tenured professor position in Berkeley. She is moving to the small town of Carolwood, California so she doesn’t have to commute a great distance to her new temporary job at a lab where she will be working with lasers and experimenting with friction welding. She’s moving instead of commuting because she’s not a great driver and she doesn’t like driving very much. She tends to get distracted and runs into stationary objects.

Braden Michaels is Captain of his firehouse and is friends with Sarah’s brother Finn. He owes Finn so he agrees to let Sarah stay in his spare room while she is in town for her six month job at the lab. He hasn’t seen Sarah since she was much younger and doesn’t really remember much about her. Finn tells Braden not to touch Sarah and describes her as a workaholic science nerd. Braden doesn’t think this will be a problem. Famous last words.

On the way into town Sarah rear ends a fire truck from Braden’s firehouse. He’s driving by on his motorcycle and stops to help his colleagues. When he sees Sarah he’s struck by her ocean eyes and beauty and can’t look or stay away.

That’s when they figure out that they are roommates.

They both feel an undeniable attraction to each other but Braden promised Finn he’d stay away from her and he’s been burned before. He doesn’t want a relationship.

Sarah is only in town for six months and has those plans to become a tenured professor back in Berkeley so they each try to put a stop to their attraction.

Fortunately for us that doesn’t last long. Their attraction is combustible and they can’t help themselves anymore. They agree to a roommates with benefits type of situation.Something with rules that Sarah can follow and keep control. Sarah needs to be in control and the most important rule in this situation is that they can’t fall in love.

I loved this romance. Stacy Travis writes smart, career-focussed women so well and Sarah is a great multi-faceted character. As is Braden, her hot firefighter roommate with a vineyard and a rescue dog.

They unlock each other’s emotions as the months go on and become something more.

“The Spark Between Us” is a slightly angsty, hot (very hot) roommate romance that will make you swoon.

WRITING STYLE: 4/5
PLOT: 4/5
WORLD-BUILDING: 4/5
PACING: 5/5
CHARACTER DEVELOPMENT: 5/5
ROMANCE: 5/5
HEAT: 5/5

I received an e-ARC of this book, my opinions are 100% my own.

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Synopsis

The Spark Between Us, an all-new opposites attract standalone romance from author Stacy Travis is available now!

When I move to small town Carolwood, I don’t expect to run into a hot-as-sin firefighter with smoldering gray eyes and eight-pack abs. Literally. With my car. Doesn’t help matters that Braden Michaels is my brother’s best friend. And my new roommate.

He’s too busy putting out blazes and igniting them in the hearts of women to pay much attention to me. I’m just here for work—six months of nerding out at a world-renowned science lab, then going home to a nice promotion and the boring men in my comfort zone.

I’m not here for a rescue fantasy, a fire station pole dance, or a romantic walk in a vineyard. I’m certainly not here to fall in love.

Until one earth-shattering night when we collide in a ball of white-hot sparks, and everything changes. We’re no longer just roommates. I don’t know what we are. But edging open Braden’s complicated heart knocks something loose in mine. All my plans and scientific facts start to pale in comparison with feelings I can’t control.

My time here has an expiration date and neither one of us wants to get hurt. Rushing into a burning building seems less risky than chasing the spark between us. Maybe it’s smarter to walk away. Or maybe I’ve found the one reason to stay.

We’ll either fall in love or we’ll go down in flames.

The Spark Between Us is Sarah and Braden’s story in the Berkeley Hills series and is an opposites attract STANDALONE novel.

Fall in love today!
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About Stacy Travis

It’s a rough world out there, and we all sometimes need a good, romantic beach read, even if we can’t make it to the beach. I’ve spent many lazy days walking the streets of Paris and other gorgeous European cities, and if I’m doing it right, I’m bringing you a dash of romance and a vacay fantasy.

I can’t sit still, so when I’m not hiking, biking or running, I’m playing a very average game of tennis. Background music for writing undoubtedly features some U2, Lizzo, Billy Joel, Pink, Taylor Swift, and Led Zeppelin. Not necessarily in that order. And if I could only eat one food group, it would be cheese. Or wine. Or bread. Are those food groups? Whatever.