HOME FIRES - Bantam

Luanne Rice is beloved for her luminous and heartwarming novels about family loyalty and passionate love. Now comes her most compelling story yet - a moving novel of desire and loss, of ordinary people tempered by crisis and restored by love. Anne Davis has returned to the house where she grew up, trading her glamorous Manhattan lifestyle for a harsh winter on a wind-whipped New England Island. Her marriage has crumbled in the wake of a tragic accident. Now she has returned to the home on Salt Whistle Road that has always meant shelter, security, family, and love. When she awakens one snowy night to a fire than roars the blaze to save something so precious that it's worth risking her life for. It is that reckless act of blind desperation that sets a miracle in motion.