An unsuspecting teenager’s world is set ablaze when a California wildfire threatens everything she holds dear.
“A searing and raw exploration of guilt and grieving, family and forgiveness . . . Lyrical and evocative.”—Elle Cosimano, award-winning author of Nearly Gone and Holding Smoke
“A gripping novel about finding out who you are under the worst circumstances.”—Booklist
The autumn morning after sixteen-year-old Audrey Harper loses her virginity, she wakes to a loud, persistent knocking at her front door.
Waiting for her are two firemen, there to let her know that the moment she’s been dreading has arrived: the enormous wild-fire sweeping through Orange County, California, is now dangerously close to her idyllic gated community of Coto de Caza, and it’s time to evacuate.
Over the next twenty-four hours, as Audrey wrestles with the possibility of losing her family home, she also recalls her early, easy summer days with Brooks, the charming, passionate, but troubled volunteer fire-fighter who enchants Audrey—and who is just as enthralled by her. But as secrets from Brooks’s dark past come to light, Audrey can’t help but wonder if there’s danger in the pull she feels—both toward this boy, and toward the fire burning in the distance.
