Last Words
Candace Cantrell and Luke Rawlings may have been the heart of the team, but I think it was in the final story of Sheila Williams that my writing changed the most.
The Firehawks Hotshots—and the companion Firehawks Lookouts series—had let me experiment with romantic suspense tales in the short form of stories. They were fun, lively, and interesting to write.
But it was Sheila’s story where I feel I first captured a glimpse of the other side of war. My friend Suzanne Brockmann says that she almost never shows her heroes in a war zone because she refuses to pretty it up. I have made a different choice, showing bits of the battles’ challenge and terror, without showing its moments of horror. It has helped me as a person to better understand the warriors I write about.
In Sheila
