This is a brand new, highly provocative contemporary novel. Its title is PLAYING WITH FIRE. Our hero first meets Ms. Jasmine Brittany in prison. Luke McCahan was serving a five year sentence for a crime he never committed. His staunchest rival at the local, Redding, California third mile oval had set him up. His girlfriend claimed statutory rape. Three years later, this troubled teen confides this to her counselor. With an immediate appeal and an exciting court trial, Luke McCahan is freed. Jasmine offers her friendship and her home to the intriguing race car driver in need of time and space, a place to stay and readapt to his regained freedom. Though he had not counted on falling madly and passionately in love with his veritable dream come true. And though Jasmine Brittany felt the same about their thrillingly intoxicating affair, each of their highly demanding careers drove them apart. Luke pursues this relationship to the very end through their long, harrowing separations to their steamily soulful reunions. A life threatening crisis, a heart stopping accident thereafter labeled suicidal. They survive it all and so has their love. WORDS ARE SIMPLY NOT ENOUGH!