Summer of Fire by Linda Jacobs

Author:Linda Jacobs
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: Suspense
ISBN: 9781932815290
Publisher: Medallion Press
Published: 2005-06-01T10:00:00+00:00

When the screaming finally stopped, she shook with sobs. Her tears dried instantly in the scorching air.

Despite an incoherent comforting murmur from Steve, it all surged back. Surrounded by the blast furnace bellow of the Hellroaring, through her closed eyelids, she could still see the glare of fire, both real and remembered. In the Yellowstone wilderness, someone suffered an agonizing fate. In a Houston apartment house, a roof slanted sideways, twisted, and crushed the man on the hose.

In the past weeks, Clare had gone from denying Frank’s death, underscored by her refusal to return to a station without him, to anger at being left unscathed at his side. Now that rage rose with the fire’s fury. Travis had said this was her fault.

“No!” She’d kicked at the flaming timbers over Frank, drunk on adrenaline and determined not to lose.

But she had. Frank was dead and a soldier’s silence spoke more eloquently than a cry.

Her fault.

With arms that ached, she struggled to hold the foil that flapped in a sixty mile-per-hour wind. Her leather gloves blackened and she gritted her teeth against her burning hands. The fire built to crescendo, sounding like a jet squadron taking off from an aircraft carrier. Communication between shelters was now out of the question.

Steve’s weight felt solid and Clare was glad she wasn’t alone like the rest.

The smoke thickened. Pressed as close as possible to the ground, she struggled for oxygen. Gripping the tapes as hard as she could, she burrowed her face into the dirt, sucking air from the porous, sandy soil.

God help her, Devon was coming tomorrow and she had to be there. She couldn’t die on this remote mountain, when not ten minutes ago life had been fine.

A little voice whispered that Frank had felt that way too.

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