Name: Walk Through Fire
ISBN: 9781455533251

Kristen Ashley

The flame never dies . . . Millie Cross knows what it's like to burn for someone. She was young and wild and he was fierce and even wilder-a Chaos biker who made her heart pound. They fell in love at first sight and life was good, until she learned she couldn't be the woman he needed and made it so he had no choice but to walk away. Twenty years later, Millie's chance run-in with her old flame sparks a desire she just can't ignore. And this time, she won't let him ride off . . . Bad boy Logan "High" Judd has seen his share of troubles with the law. Yet it was a beautiful woman who broke him. After ending a loveless marriage, High is shocked when his true love walks back into his life. Millie is still gorgeous, but she's just a ghost of her former self. High's intrigued at the change, but her betrayal cut him deep-and he doesn't want to get burned again. As High sinks into meting out vengeance for Millie's betrayal, he'll break all over again when he realizes just how Millie walked through fire for her man . . .

Walk Through Fire

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    Summary
  
 
Millie Cross has ached and burned for the only man she has ever loved and Millie has had to walk through fire for him. When she was eighteen, Millie met the wild Chaos prospect, Logan "High" Judd. For three wonderful years they were happy and in love and they had dreamed of a family and to share their joys and sorrows through life together. But Millie had to make a sacrifice for Logan, a sacrifice that he couldn't know about. So Millie broke all ties with Logan completely. And for a very long twenty years, Millie has gone through life as an empty shell, craving and loving a man she can never have. But when she spots Logan at a local Chipotle, and learns that he is getting divorced and has two little girls, it sparks a flame inside Millie she thought was dead and buried. She decides to go in search of him, make sure he is happy and content with life and to apologize for hurting him all those years ago. Hoping that she will herself, find closure too and be able to find joy in life like she once did. But her reunion with Logan "High" isn't easy on her. High is furious upon seeing Millie again, he could never understand why Millie could hurt him all those years ago when they were so happy together. But as he investigates Milllie, he only discovers more questions about her. He doesn't understand why she never remarried or had children like she dreamed of. But through of fit of temper, Millie reveals the truth to him, and now High will do everything in his power to have Millie back in his life again....because she made the biggest sacrifice for him and he refuses to spend one more moment without her.
 
  
    The Hero
  
 
Logan "High" Judd started out with a loving family. But then he was able to discover the Choas MC and he found a new family. He worked hard to become a part of this brotherhood. Where they fight and love for each other. Then he met a young and sweet woman, Millie, who stole his heart instantly. He never felt a stronger connection to anyone. High became a prestigious member of the Chaos Club, he fell into sync with everything about it. But when he lost Millie, High went through the toughest phase of his life. And even though he did remarry but only out of duty when the girl he had sex with got pregnant, he stayed with her for years and had two little daughters that are the apple of his eye. He would do anything for his kids. Now he is divorced, and when Millie walks back through his life...he is furious at her. The anger and pain come all back to him. At first I wasn't sure how I felt about High, because I didn't care for the brutal way he treats Millie at first. Wow, does he have some issues to work through. He is downright cruel to her. But that blows over, and we see the real man beneath all that anger and I LOVED him. He is a fabulous hero who fights for those he loves the most.

  
    “Millie, I was given one good thing in my life, the family I was born into. I found one good thing, my Club .... But in all my life, I only earned one good thing. That’s you.”
  

 
  
    The Heroine
  
 
Millie Cross has a passion for music and live and has a breathless energy. Millie loves her family, but when she meets Logan her world is changed. She finds desire and love with Logan. Even though he is a bad boy biker, he is tender and charming with her. Millie fell in love with Logan hard and fast but that love never died. She soaked up those precious three years with him. But when she learns a truth, a truth that would devastate Logan and his dreams, she did the only thing she could for the one person she would give her life for.....leave him and make sure he found that dream. Millie's life became dull and void, she existed for twenty years. She made a event planning business for herself, created a beautiful home, became a loving aunt to her niece and nephew. However, she never truly lived. Because when Logan left so did everything vibrant within her leave. After twenty years, she still yearns for Logan, to find some peace and happiness. Millie was a heroine that at first I had a hard time understanding her reasons. Because they aren't revealed for a while. But when you learn the truth about her reason for leaving Logan....your heart breaks.

  
    “I gave you up, walking through fire to do it but I did it,” I told him. “I did it in the end. I gave you everything,” 
  

We see the hell she has gone through, and even though it didn't break her, she isn't the same. But I felt in some ways I could really relate with her. I understood why she did what she did, because sometimes you have to make sacrifices for those you love.
 
  
    Plot and Story Line
  
 
Walk Through Fire is an intense and emotional roller coaster that will bring tears to your eyes and laughter to your heart in those special moments. I think this is the most emotion I have ever felt in a contemporary romance before and this author really works her readers through some difficult issues. This story starts out at the present, but through the first 1/3 of the book, we see flashbacks. From their first meeting, first date and when they start living together. We see how special their bond is and I loved these flashbacks. Because I felt they were vital to the story. Most times I don't care for them. But in Walk Through Fire  I felt that they were necessary. You see the depth of their love for each other those first three years. As we are taken to the present, we see that they each still love each other, but won't admit to it because the pain it causes them both.

  
    “I'm done walking through fire for you, High! ... I'm done not because I'm done but because there's nothing left of me to burn. You have it all. You've always had it all! I gave up everything so you can have it all! Please! God! Leave me to my nothing.” 
  

Thus we have the cavalry, the women that are loyal to the Chaos MC. Tyra, Lanie, Tabby, Elvira and Cherry. Elvira is awesome in this book, wow I LOVE her. But Tyra, sees the pain in Millie's eye and even though her man, leader of Chaos forbids it, she gathers her girls and tries to bring these two back together. She sees something in Millie, that the brothers of Chaos can't see, but she knows that they must fight for Millie.

What Millie and Logan go through is quite heartbreaking, and the tension is extreme at times. But when Millie unexpectedly blurts out the truth, not only in front of High but many other brothers of the club, I almost wanted to cry. I never expect that truth, but then everything for the reader becomes clear about Millie. You see her reasons, understand it and see that she gave up everything for the man she loved and lost and it tore me to shreds. Wow can Kristen Ashley write a story to reel you in with every range of emotion. Then things start to fall into place for Logan and Millie,as they do come to terms with the past and embrace the future by each others side, the fight doesn't end there. Both Millie and Logan have changed over the years, and they have one more battle to fight. Winning over Logan's two girls. Now this is one tough battle.

  
    “You might not believe that but my heart breaks for you, what you want you can’t have and learning that so young. It’s tough, the toughest lesson you can learn in life. So tough, people a lot older than you don’t learn it until it’s too late. But sometimes we gotta let go of what we want when it isn’t to be had, find a new dream and work for that. I want that dream for your dad. And I hope you’ll find some way to want that with me so we can work together and give it to him.” 
  

And I love seeing Logan and Millie reconnect with each other, and seeing Millie learn to love these two girls like Logan does. Its not easy though, and they will both have to walk through fire to get their much deserved HEA...but they obtain it. Whew what a story, this book has 100% endeared me to this author forever.

  
    “I love you,” he declared. “Loved you then. Love you now. Never quit lovin’ you in a way I know I never will. You were it for me, the only one, the only woman I ever loved, and you never quit bein’ it for me.”
  

 
  
    Narration
  
 
Kate Russell is superb....she is talented and totally perfect for this story. I loved her inflection of emotion and drama as she portrays the plot  and the characters so well along with the emotion of the story itself. A Must for Audio lovers.
 
  
    The Cover
  
 
I love this cover, you don't seem many with this grey like color scheme, but I loved it!! It really fits so well with the story.
 
  
    Overall View
  
 
Walk Through Fire is a stimulating and tension filled romance that will take you on a wild and emotional ride that no romance lover wants to miss out on!! Guaranteed that these characters will worm their way into your heart and soul!! A BREATHTAKINGLY BEAUTIFUL LOVE STORY

  

  
    
      “You love a man, Millie, you believe in him, you take him as he is. You go on his journey with him no matter what happens, even if that means you have to walk through fire.” 
    
    

  


  


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Linda Quintanilla

Review:
Wow, Kristen Ashley definitely knows how to write emotional romance story ever! She has created a another fantastic romance MC book that it has raw emotional between true love. It is true love that you are willing to give for your love one. Walking Though Fire is a true emotional romance story ever that you will cry when you see what the character are willing to give for their partner. 

Walking Through Fire begins with a former love returning back to MC biker. However, things are very complicated that it does a lot for them to be together. There are some secrets between them that it did tear them apart but it was for their best interest though. It is a great hardship that Millie did for her love MC biker, High, that it becomes a challenge for her to keep the secret in order to provide Huge his true desire. 

I definitely love Millie character that every reader will love her even more when they read what she did for High. I definitely felt for her that it proves how strong she is as a women as she let her High go so he can get what he desire. It was so emotional to read on the past history between them that you want to root for them to get back together but it will take some time for High to find out what she did for him for them to be together. Their love is pure that you want their love too!

Five Stars!!

Totally Addicted to Reading

I was on the fence with my rating for this title. The book started out real well but after about fifty per cent into the book the story became boring and very difficult to get through.
 
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Samantha Emery

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★Book Basics★ 


  Genre
: - Cont. Romance 

  Series
: - 4th in the series

  Love triangle?
 - (view spoiler)[No (hide spoiler)]

  Cheating?
 - (view spoiler)[No (hide spoiler)]

  HEA? -
 (view spoiler)[Yes (hide spoiler)]

  Would I read more by this author/or in this series? 
- Yes

  Rating 
- 4 stars


★Review★
And extra 
  GOOD NEWS
 (view spoiler)[KA held a pre order party, where she promised an Elvira and Malik bonus chapter. YES, you read that right. Now as KA herself has said "Now, just a note that you should hit this bonus fun after you read Walk Through Fire. There are definitely spoilers in it so don’t jump the gun. It’s not going anywhere, it’s free, so it’ll be here when you need it." -So, find it here - http://www.kristenashley.net/wp-conte...  (hide spoiler)]

Ohh, I was so nervous to start this book. It seemed like it may be overly angsty, and I do not do overly angsty very well.



But then we all know I LOVE a lovers reunited second chance romance.



So, Mille and Logan had been in love, and not just in love but IN LOVE. They were each others one. When Millie, out of the blue ended it, and in such a way to almost destroy Logan and make him think the 3 years they had had together had been a lie.

So when Millie goes to Logan, after 20 years deciding it is time to move on and explain her reasons, Logan, and his "brothers" do not react well. And while some may have issues with this, and yes he was an ass, as were Chaos, it was understandable. Chaos had seen what it had done to High, the self destructive path he went on, and at the time did not care who he dragged along with him. But you felt for both High and Millie, and the first 40% was heart wrenching and heart breaking but oh so worth it once High found out just how much Millie had given up for him.

Now, I have heard some rumblings about the reasons Millie having left High not being good enough, but I went through something similar myself, at an older more mature age, and still, it almost destroyed my marriage. I can totally see Millie, given all her and High had spent 3 years discussing and wanting, being totally unable to cope and know how to deal with it at her age and doing what she did.

And while she did not move on relationship wise, she moved on in life, she had grown and matured, had a very successful business, a house she had worked on herself, but I can see her not being in a relationship, given why she forced High to walk away, her not starting a new relationship, given what she saw as her lack makes sense.

I did get to say 40% and think, you know at this point, most authors would end the story, they are back together, surely that is all that there is, off they ride into the sunset....but this is KA, so we know she like to give us more. And more she did, and while the second half was not as much of an emotional roller coaster as the first half, I still loved it. It was them settling into life, the problems that can face families in that way. 

Oh, and the huge PLUS - Logan's ex was actually cool. No horrible psycho ex! 

Plus we have the storyline ARC that has been through all the Chaos series. And this is maybe why it is 4 stars and not 5. Seems like Chaos and the bad guy have spent the entire chaos series pushing each other back and forth and not much happening. Threats here and there, and I kind of forgot exactly what had happened in previous books and my worry here is that will all come to a head in the last chaos book, and quite frankly overshadow the romance, as this storyline ARC is building and building, and it has to explode, as opposed to just petering out. But I kind of just wish it would get done.

But, I still loved reading Millie and Logan's story and cannot wait for more from this series.

Lynn Braden

Walk Through Fire is the fourth book in the Chaos Motorcycle Club series. In this story, Logan "High" Judd and Millie Cross reunite after being apart for more than 20 years. A secret Millie kept from almost everyone caused their split, but instead of being honest with Logan, Millie lied and walked away, breaking both of their hearts. When she spots him in line at a local restaurant, she decides it is time to tell him why she really left, but before she gets the chance, she and Logan delve into a game of unhealthy sexual one-ups-man-ship that leads to even more hurt between them. 
The first half of this book was very emotional and intriguing, even though Millie could have helped her cause a great deal by just telling the truth, but it did make for quick and enjoyable reading. Unfortunately, the suspense quickly wanes when the secret of why Millie left is revealed half way through the book. The last half of the book was much less interesting and seemed to be an after thought in order to make the book longer. After Millie is taken by Valenzuela, the decisions that were made by the characters were fuzzy and unclear. All in all, a decent story, but too long with illogical decisions made by the characters.

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Kristen Ashley has done it again! (Not that I'm at ALL surprised by this. She's a genius.) I started Walk Through Fire in the midst of a moment of panic during a HUGE book hangover and it was exactly the thing I needed to get me over it. (And, of course, leave me with a hangover for a completely different book.)

Anyone who follows my blog knows I'm a total sucker for a second chance love story. It's one of my favorite tropes. The first part of Millie and Logan's story ended twenty years ago – we don't know exactly why, but we do know it wasn't pretty. I had some rough moments with Logan during the beginning of this story, ones I was entirely sure I'd be able to move past, but I did. Oh, did I ever. It took some time, but I was singing the man's praises for sure by the end. 

I liked Millie at the beginning, though I was a little cautious because I didn't know what exactly she'd done in the past to break Logan like she did. I didn't want to be too far in her corner if there was a chance she'd done something unforgivable. Gods, it was just the opposite. Of course, I'm not going to spoil things for you, but damn. Her story broke my heart. It was with the revelation of the truth that Logan finally won me over entirely, too. It wasn't all pretty, but it was real and raw and I felt every single minute of it. 

Of course, moving on from issues of the past was only part of the challenge for this couple. His daughter was determined to cause problems – I don't know when I last wanted so badly to wring the neck of a character in a book – and there's the ongoing saga with Benito that kept me on edge several times throughout this book. Through it all, however, there was no doubt in my mind that Millie and Logan were the real deal and that they would, eventually, work past the other things and move towards something real again. They had it all – chemistry, passion, love and mutual respect. They got each other. They understood each other's lives. They belonged together. 

I loved getting lost in the world that Kristen has built here with Chaos. I love her writing, characters and stories. I feel like I'm living it, not just reading it. I had ALL THE FEELS and I loved (nearly) every second of it. And that epilogue? *contented sigh* I couldn't have asked for anything more perfect than that was. I'm not entirely sure who gets the next book (but damn, I sure hope it's Hound) but I do know I'll be waiting anxiously to find out and get my hands on it. 

I received a copy of this book from the publisher, via NetGalley, in exchange for an honest review.