About This Book
Rowan Tripp grew up watching her father jump into wildfires from planes, and now she does it herself — not because she has to, but because nothing else comes close. Set against the raw landscape of Montana's fire season, Chasing Fire drops readers into the world of smoke jumpers: elite crews who parachute into the path of wildfires and rely on split-second judgment to survive. When a suspicious death from the previous season begins to cast a shadow over the new one, Rowan finds herself navigating grief, attraction, and genuine danger all at once. The stakes are visceral, the setting is alive, and the tension builds with the slow, inevitable logic of a fire spreading through dry timber.
Roberts constructs this one with the confidence of a writer who knows exactly when to slow down and when to let a scene ignite. The romance earns its heat because it's grounded in character — Gulliver Curry is an unlikely foil for Rowan, and their push-pull dynamic gives the thriller plot room to breathe without ever undercutting it. What lingers is the texture: the camaraderie of the crew, the physical reality of the work, the Montana wilderness rendered with genuine specificity. It reads fast but doesn't feel rushed.
