Widowed, pregnant and alone on the eighteenth-century American frontier, Elspeth "Bethie" Stewart has learned to trust no one — least of all men, who have left her broken and scarred. So when a wounded stranger stumbles onto her isolated land, she binds him to her bed and hides his weapons before daring to tend his injuries.
The stranger is Nicholas Kenleigh, a man whose body carries the marks of captivity and violence and whose spirit is nearly as ravaged as Bethie's own. As the two wary survivors share the same roof, the wilderness pressing in around them, the walls each has built for protection begin to give way. Slowly, warily, they reveal their hidden desires and their darkest secrets, discovering that the passion between them might be the only thing capable of burning away the nightmares of their pasts.
The third book in Pamela Clare's Blakewell/Kenleigh Family saga, Ride the Fire is a tender, harrowing frontier romance about two damaged people who find, in each other, a reason to stop merely surviving and start living.