Thank you to Sarahlyn Bruck, Lake Union Publishing, and NetGalley for an ARC of "Light of the Fire" in exchange for my honest review.

Beth and Ally, best friends and teammates, are the only two females on the high school soccer team. Facing bullying and harassment from the other members of the soccer team, they plan a prank that ends up destroying the school's gym and the lives of the janitor, falsely accused of the crime. Beth and Ally choose to keep the secret of what truly happened and move on with their lives.

Twenty years later, Beth and Ally are estranged but meet up again when Beth returns home after a forced retirement from professional soccer and to take care of her father with a debilitating stroke. Ally, a mother of two, with a new live-boyfriend, has been successful in building up her own company..never revealng their 20 year old secret. Enter Jordan, son of the janitor falsely accused, who is managing his estranged father's care due to onset of Alzheimers. Jordan begins to investigate the school's gym destruction to provide justice to his father whose life was ruined when he was falsely accused.

Told in three POVs (Beth, Ally, and Jordan), this book deals with issues of friendship, family, new love, guilt, and being accountable for own actions. Overall this book was enjoyable. I did not feel a strong connection to Beth and Ally, mostly as I could not feel that these women were truly sorry for the damage they caused to not only the school but to the man's life who was destroyed. The ending of the book felt rushed and did not provide enough of a tie-up to feel the book resolved its intention.