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"From the author of The Bright Years, the story of April and Leo, a couple on the brink of collapse. When their house goes up in flames, family secrets and thorny histories emerge as they are forced to decide what is worth salvaging. When April and Leo's house burns in the middle of the night, they escape with their two young children and the quiet knowledge that the fire is not the only thing threatening their family. They retreat to April's childhood...

Wombat isn't actually a wombat--but when the homeless dog is discovered, singed and ash-covered after a terrible fire destroys a community, someone tags her with the nickname and it sticks. Wombat is a "destiny dog." Something inside of her (she nicknames it "Voice') keeps telling her there's a special someone out there who is meant to be her person. Surrounded by a devastated town, Wombat takes up residence on bench near the makeshift community center,...

On a night in January, on the Garden Peninsula of Michigan, a farmhouse burns to the ground. A young child makes it out and flees into the woods with a book of matches in her hand. Ten years later, Abby, a lover of birds and the natural world, returns to Garden, to the woods and lakes and farms and fisheries of her childhood, to assist her uncle on an environmental study of trees. Her best friend, Brew, invites her to a party where she meets a troubled...

"The year is 1864 and Atlanta, Georgia, has been set ablaze during the Civil War! Twelve-year-old Bailey is feeling nervous as the Union Army advances on Atlanta. While most people are fleeing the city, her family is not. Bailey's father works at a newspaper, and he must stay to report hte news. But when the Union Army arrives and sets fire to the city, her whole family is in danger. Will Bailey find a way to help protect her family as Atlanta burns...

"Tucker Colburn and Hazel Pierce are not speaking to each other. Their chemistry? Still sizzling, complicated by a tangled web of secrets, second chances, and unresolved tension. When Hazel is trapped in a fire on her work site, Tucker realizes he can't lose her"-- Provided by publisher.