Falls Like Lightning

Falls Like Lightning  - By Shawn Grady
Published by Bethany House Publishers

Falls Like Lightning  was provided to me free of charge from Bethany House Publishers in exchange for my review.

Silas Kent is a smoke jumper - a man who jumps out of a plane, and then fights fires from the ground  - WITHOUT water. 

He never expected to meet Elle again, but when she is assigned to pilot the plane Silas and his team are jumping from, Silas begins to regret the mistake he made with her years ago.  Elle, on the other hand, has her hands full being a single mother with a high risk job. She's been hurt enough, and wants no part of Silas anymore. 

Before they can start to at least rebuild their friendship, Silas is assigned to fight a huge forest fire in the same forest that Elle has flown over inch by inch following a horrible tragedy with her father.  So naturally, Elle is assigned to pilot the plane yet again. 

When a freak accident leaves Silas on the ground, barely escaping with his life,  and Elle possibly dead from the plane crash, Silas sets out to find the downed plane even while fighting the fire with a new crew. 

As he searches, he realizes he has much more to fear than the raging fire itself. 

Falls Like Lightning was a good read.  Not a favorite book of mine, but good for contemporary Christian Fiction/Suspense. I learned a bit about Fire Jumping and the sacrifices men and women make for our communities every day.  And for that I am extremely thankful.