Chasing Fire (2011) (edit title/settings)

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• Rowan Tripp: Fire jumper, following in her father's footsteps since she was 18, nicknamed Swede for her Nordic looks
• Gulliver 'Gull' Curry: Rookie fire jumper with a big vocabulary. Owns a kids' arcade in California. Formerly worked as a 'hotshot' in California fighting wild fires.
• Lynn Dorchester: Cook at the base camp
• Lieutenant Quinniock: Local detective working with the Feds
• Agent Kimberly DiCicco: Federal agent investigating the case. Forest Service Special Agent.
• Trigger Gulch: Seasoned fire jumper
• Yangtree: Seasoned fire jumper
• Gibbons: Seasoned fire jumper
• Rev. Latterly: Dolly and Irene's minister and spiritual adviser
• Irene Brakeman: Dolly's mother. Cook in cafeteria at Orchard Homes Academy where Ella is principal.
• Leo Brakeman: Dolly's father. A mechanic at the airport.
• Ella Frazier: Skydiving student of Lucas. Principal at private school, Orchard Homes Academy.
• Cards: Seasoned fire jumper, nicknamed such because he always carries cards
• Marcie: Lucas' customer service representative
• Michael 'L. B.' Little Bear: Head of base operations
• Marg Colby: Head cook for base operations
• Janis 'Elf' Petrie: Returning fire jumper, nicknamed Elf because of her diminutive stature
• Libby Rydor: Rookie fire jumper who catches Dobie's eye when she makes the team. Nicknamed Barbie by Rowan.
• Stovic: Rookie fire jumper who injured himself in the first fire of the season, earning the nickname "Chainsaw"
• Matt Brayner: Jim's brother, who's also a fire jumper
• Jim Brayner: Fire jumper who died the previous season when he bungled a jump with Rowan as his partner. Matt's brother
• Dolly Brakeman: Former cook at the base who was involved with Jim. Never met a man she didn't like.
• Dobie Karstain: One of the rookie fire jumpers who was injured in a fight
• Lucas 'Iron Man' Tripp: Rowan's father who runs a private skydiving business (Zulie Skydiving); former fire jumper

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• “F$?&ing Assistant Principal Brewster!” Dobie stomped out the licking flames. “Suspended me for smoking in the bathroom.” “High school sucks.” “Middle school. I got an early start.””

  Dobie and Gull

• ““I found you in the wild, Rowan. That’s a hell of a thing.” She smiled, a little uncertainly. “I wasn’t lost.” “Neither was I. But I’m found, too, just the same.””

  Gull to Rowan

• “No. It’s you. It’s Dobie in the black, the fire raging behind him, telling me how much he loves this job, what he’s found in it. And it’s you, Rowan, in the sunlight with preserved beauty at your back. You’re the end of the goddamn rainbow.” “Come on.” Mildly embarrassed, she shrugged it off, started toward him. “You must be punchy.” “You’re the answer before I even asked the question.””

  Gull to Rowan

• “She’s hot.” “Jesus Christ. She’s old enough to be your mother.” “My aunt’s also hot. A guy doesn’t have to want to sleep with a woman to acknowledge the hotness.”

  Gull to Rowan, talking about Ella

• “I got another in me.” Stovic lifted his glass, proved he did—before he slid bonelessly to the floor. “And he’s out.” Cards crossed Stovic off the board. “I am not out.” From the floor, Stovic waved a hand. “I’m fully conscious.” “You leave your chair without calling for a piss break, you’re out.” “Who left the chair?”

• “Rowan: "Not much appetite this morning?” Dobie: “I woke up on the floor with Stovic. I may never eat again.” “How’s Stovic?” Gull asked. “Last I saw him, his eyes were full of blood, and he was crawling toward his quarters. If I ever pick up a glass of tequila again, shoot me. It’d be a mercy.”

  Rowan, Dobie and Gull

• ““I want lots and lots of sex.” “You really are the woman of my dreams.” “First round, wet shower sex, after we scrape off a few layers of the Alaskan tundra, then a short and satisfying lunch break.” She unbuckled her belt, dropped her pants. “Then a second round of make-themattress-sing sex.” “I feel a tear of gratitude and awe forming in the corner of my eye. Don’t think less of me.””

  Rowan and Gull

• “Fire doesn't only destroy, Rowen. Sometimes it creates. The best of it creates, and when love's a fire, whether it's bright or a steady glow, hot or warm, it creates. It makes you better than you were without it.”

  Lucas

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• “There’s a lot that goes around it. Trust and respect and—” He cleared his throat again. “Attraction. But the center’s a reflection of all of those things, all your strengths and weaknesses, hopes and dreams. They catch fire there, in the center. Maybe it blazes, maybe it simmers, smolders, but there’s the heat and the light, all those colors, and what’s around it feeds it.

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• “You should know, straight off, I don’t need a mother.” “Oh, of course you do. Everyone does. A woman who’ll listen, take your side, tell the truth—or not, as you need it. A woman you can count on, no matter what, and who’ll love you no matter how much you screw up.

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Setting & Locations edit see section history

• Missoula, MT

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Authors & Contributors edit see section history

1. Nora Roberts (Author)

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• Dewey: 813

Notes for Parents edit see section history

Profanity. Sexual content.

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• Books › Literature & Fiction › Authors, A-Z › ( R )
• Books › Literature & Fiction › Contemporary
• Books › Romance › Romantic Suspense

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• Nora Roberts: Author's website

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