Until that fateful day, he has been happy to spend his winters nurturing a career as a photographer and his summer vacations with Ed, "smoke jumping" being dropped by parachute to fight remote forest fires. With his blond, blue-eyed looks and laconic cowboy charm, Connor is the only child of a Montana rancher and a rodeo queen. Julia loves them both but the tragedy on Snake Mountain forces her to choose between them and burns a brand on all their hearts. For Julia Bishop is the partner of his closest friend, Ed Tully, an ambitious young musician. His name is Connor Ford and he falls like an angel of mercy from the sky, braving the flames to save the woman he loves but knows he cannot have. For soon the cocoon of fire will hatch to engulf the entire mountain and exact its deadly toll. She has brought them here by court order on a youth program to help them find themselves. The woman, camped nearby with her group of troubled teenagers, slept on and heard nothing. There were witnesses no doubt to this sudden splintering of air and wood, but none that was human.
It struck a mountain ridge on a still and moonless night and nestled like a pupa of death in the desiccated heart of an ancient pine. The fire that was to change so many lives so utterly started with a single shaft of lightning.
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