Jackie Taylor Zortman

JAKE-Echoes of Silence Jackie Taylor Zortman

JAKE-Echoes of Silence contains three romantic suspense novellas in a single volume. The stories follow the adventures of Jake, the Drifter, who is a drop-dead gorgeous fireman with a Harley. He rides from town to town without a particular destination until a location sends out a signal for him to stop and stay awhile. Usually it is because of some crisis that he can fix. His nemesis is a shocking secret that he cannot reveal and the reason he is compelled to move on, sometimes leaving a heart-broken woman and close friends behind. JAKE-Whiskey, Water & Wildfire finds Jake riding his Harley into Kimble, Colorado. He's single and intends to remain that way. He wants nothing more than water with ice and food for his rumbling stomach. Inside a café he finds someone he was not looking for who causes him to break his rules. When a wildfire ignites, Jake is the only one prepared to fight it and takes control. His landlady quickly adopts him as her pseudo-son and he accepts her as a mother-figure. Are the answers to it all simmering inside the fire or is it something more?The ending will shock and surprise you. JAKE-Winds of Change has Jake on a ski trip to Telluride, Colorado from his Idaho job. He falls in love with the western slope terrain and decides not to leave. Not finding a firefighter's job, he becomes a Fire Investigator for the Sierra, Colorado PD. He meets a mystical free-spirited older woman in the local bookstore where she works. By coincidence, her stunning daughter becomes his neighbor in adjacent hotel apartments. They develop a sizzling no-strings-attached relationship and spend much time together. On a trip to Redstone, Jake uncovers the answers to many questions in his primary case. As he prepares to leave Sierra, he is the one shocked by the secrets revealed to him. JAKE-Echoes of Silence tracks Jake back to Kimble, Colorado to finish old business. He learns that his secret has been revealed by his former landlady and the woman he loves. He discovers his love interest is involved with someone new and hesitant to accept him. In the ashes of his former abode, he creates the answer to the owner's problems post-fire. New love interests suddenly appear. Another wildfire breaks out and Jake finds himself saving the man who is his competition. Security cameras reveal a surprise that turns things around for Jake's mission. Will he finally be able to settle down or will he be forced to remain a vagabond?