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Julie Garwood wrote Slow Burn in August 2005. Ballantine Books published the book and has 353 pages.

In the city of Charleston, South Carolina, Kate MacKenna runs her own business selling baskets of unique scents in various forms. She started this business while in college with help from her mother and the use of their family kitchen. Her two sisters each have ambitions of their own and her mother recently died after a long bout with cancer. Except for her sisters, she is now on her own and they rely on her for many things.

While helping a friend set up a reception for an artist, Kate suffers a head injury after an explosion rocks this site. A wonder-bra saved her life. Then after visiting her sick friend Jordan, she returns home and is almost baked in her car when she is again in the wrong place at the wrong time and there is another explosion. Jordan’s brother Dylan is a police officer on leave and he comes after her to keep her safe. They have been attracted to one another for sometime and while Kate was in New York with his sister, they acted on that attraction. During the investigation of the threats she has survived, Dylan and Kate fight their attraction.

A bank manager informs Kate of debts from her mother’s illness during all of this turmoil, which may mean the end of her company. In addition, a man in another part of the country, unhappy with his own family tree, decides this often-dismissed branch may be his answer as to what to do with his fortune. Kate and her sisters no nothing of any other family, but decide to see where this information may lead. Kate knows that New York is where he lives and Charleston is her home. There are as many twists and turns in this other family branch as a python ball at mating season and the dangers though unclear are many.

Julie Garwood has written many books and her characters have snappy dialogue and are entertaining. The action of this book is intermingled with the burgeoning relationships in a pleasurable fashion and therefore is a very good read.