The book begins a three-part-trilogy entitled “Chronicles of Fire” that takes you from the past to the future with struggles, the desire to succeed and the passion for life. Controversy may be on the minds of all reading this book because while the book is fiction, Ashley touches on issues that affect society today, and opens wide the old wounds of human nature that are kept in secrecy. Everything, from the struggle her characters endure to become successful in Las Vegas, to the relationships that transpire between these individuals captures the essence of what she stands for and the messages that she portrays are raw and real. From this book, you will examine your own beliefs and cheer in triumph as goodwill takes the place of evil.“That Fire in Their Eyes” will be the novel that takes you through Las Vegas to the path of love’s true definition. Vanessa Childress is a beautiful dancer who vowed not to love again until she became successful in her career after the love of her life died of cancer. Her best friend Antonio is always telling her that she should at least have fun but when she meets the stunningly handsome Robert, a man in the middle of divorcing his cheating wife, she gets so much more excitement tan she ever bargained for.Deciding to stick with him though his ex-wife has threatened their lives was a no-brainer, since Vanessa isn’t scared to love anymore.Robert Thomas is in the middle of a messy divorce and did not expect to find another love so soon but when he saw Vanessa crying one day, he knew that he would make her his and he would never let her cry alone again. The bliss of her love wraps him into life altering changes and through her, he gains the courage to quit his job and run back to the dream he always had.b Soon, he’s wrapping an engagement ring on her finger and they begin planning the happiest day of their lives but evil is lurking around the corner when a string of dangerous events begin to happen that challenge their relationship down to the core. Then with a mysterious chain of events, everything that Robert has worked hard for is being stolen right from under him, his fiancé has been violated, money goes missing and the plot thickens when Robert recognizes the perpetrators on a security camera. When a circle of crime is revealed, Robert finds himself taking drastic measures that include a nine-millimeter and going head to head with the very evil that wants to destroy him and the only woman that he ever loved so much.