Wildfire

Catriona is on fire with love for her ice-queen lover, Katherine Konrad, and with expectation for the great things they can achieve together. But first, she has to introduce Kat, a global leader in mass-media and a self-made millionaire, to her penniless artist of a mother and to her reclusive, homesteading grandparents. They live up in the woods of northern Oregon, and deliberately shun everything Kat holds precious and thinks important. Over one weekend, they fly up from California to pay a visit. And this short trip unexpectedly erupts into a life and death struggle for survival for the whole family. A deadly wildfire sweeps down the valley where her grandparents live, and Kat and Cat both discover just what love means, as they work together to save not only themselves, but Cat's family and the whole community. Hour by hour, as the fire rages, this tender love story explores what it means to cope with fear and loss in the face of natural disaster. The two women discover new strengths and depths within each other, as well as a growing awareness of how fragile life and love can be.Will the challenges they face strengthen the love and attraction they feel, or will the destructive power of a mighty wildfire prove too great? This story, set in the late summer of 2019, is a sequel to Heatwave, and was conceived before the wildfires took hold of the US west-coast in 2020.