2006
WILLA Literary Award winner for Original Softcover Fiction.
"SUMMER
OF FIRE is at once a beautiful and disturbing voyage
through the type of hell that only firefighters understand.
Human,
brutal, wrenching. Clare Chance is as genuine a character
as they come - brave, vulnerable, well-trained and thrown
by her own act of escape into a forested hell. Beautifully
crafted and shudderingly real."
~ NY Times Bestselling author, John J. Nance
It is 1988, and Yellowstone Park is on fire.
Among the thousands
of summer warriors battling to save America’s
crown jewel, is single mother Clare Chance. Having just watched
her best friend, a fellow Texas firefighter, die in a roof
collapse, she has fled to Montana to try and put the memory
behind her. She’s not the only one fighting personal
demons as well as the fiery dragon threatening to consume
the park.
There’s Chris Deering, a Vietnam veteran helicopter
pilot, seeking his next adrenaline high and a good time that
doesn’t include his wife, and Ranger Steve Haywood,
a man scarred by the loss of his wife and baby in a plane
crash. They rally ‘round Clare when tragedy strikes
yet again, and she loses a young soldier to a firestorm.
Three flawed, wounded
people; one horrific blaze. Its tentacles are encircling
the park, coming ever closer, threatening to
cut them off. The landmark Old Faithful Inn and Park Headquarters
at Mammoth are under siege, and now there’s a helicopter
down, missing, somewhere in the path of the conflagration.
And Clare’s daughter is on it …
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