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Montana wildfire fighter Rowan has a strict rule: never get romantically involved with anyone she works with. But the moment she meets new recruit Gull Curry that rule is severely tested. And when it becomes clear that someone blames Rowan for her jump partner's death, and is determined to get revenge, Rowan finds that she needs Gull's help and support more than ever.

"As a member of the North Cascades Smokejumpers, Alexia Allen always takes care of the equipment that keeps her safe. So when she nearly dies in a fire due to equipment failure, she knows something is up. Ordered to take time off while the investigation continues, Alexia makes a last-minute decision to recuperate at her mother's home and attend her high school reunion. Yet trouble seems to be following her, and within hours of arriving home she's...

A pilot and a smoke jumper find old grudges turning into renewed attraction when they're forced to rely on each other after a plane crash.

The author's chronicle of one summer as an Alaskan smokejumper reflects on the years of training, the adrenaline-fueled jumps, his brushes with death, the fires he conquered, and the ones that got away.

Barnes, the supervisor of a Hot Shot wildfire suppression crew, is haunted by the season past, when many members of his dedicated, young team were killed in a Colorado forest fire that went all wrong, scorching the Hot Shots as they fled, some as they struggled into their fire shelters. He wakes each morning in the presence of their ghosts as they proceed across his bedroom or assemble at his kitchen table, their eyes asking questions that he cannot...

This book describes the work of smoke jumpers, special firefighters who use parachutes to jump into the forest to fight fires.

When lawyer Hunter Lee leaves the New York City rat race that made him rich but cost him his marriage, he sets out to build a new life in Fort Mason, Montana. His friend Paul Brule, a Fire Jumper, shows him the reality of vast tracts of forest reduced to ash in seconds by hundred-foot walls of flame. Hunter comes to suspect that this particualr rash of summer fires is anything but accidental and could be serving a more sinister purpose. -- from publisher...

Accepted into the Forest Service's class of smokejumpers, nineteen-year-old wildland firefighter Blair Scott takes unnecessary risks to prove herself and struggles to cope when everything rages wildly out of control.