The Sapphire Crew, Book 3
Crown Fire
She left the crew, the town, and him three years ago. The fire is bringing her back to all three.
She left the crew, the town, and him three years ago. The fire is bringing her back to all three.
Former hotshot Elise Navarro swore she was done with the Sapphire Hotshots. Done with Hamilton. Done with squad leader Gage Thornton, the best sawyer on the crew and the man who once looked her in the eye and let her believe she had imagined the impossible thing she saw in the dark. She built a new life cutting defensible space for the same valley families, alone, on her own terms.
Then a late-season crown fire runs toward Hamilton and the bloodline families' homes, and the crew is short a sawyer it trusts. Elise takes the seat for one season, on Gage's squad, at Gage's shoulder.
Federal investigator Dana Whitfield is already in Hamilton, and her file has a photograph-shaped hole in it: two infrared frames, ninety seconds apart, a man and then a bear. Defending the town means working miracles in public. Working them means exposure.
He would not trust her with the truth once. Can she trust him with it now, when the truth is the only thing standing between the crew and the fire?