Black Tree Moon

SOUTH DAKOTA’S BLACK HILLS, WHERE FIRES RAGED—AND WHERE ONE WOMAN HAD A FIRE FIGHTER BURNING UP

Race Latimer: One of the Forest Service’s elite smoke jumpers. Part owner of the Plugged Nickel casino. Half Chippewa Indian. Full-time hell-raiser.

Hannah Quinn: Head of self-help program for downtrodden women. Churchgoer. Pint-size blonde with a heart too big for the secret she had to keep.

Race Latimer had always drifted from town to town, fire to fire—woman to woman. But suddenly a goody-two-shoes preacher’s daughter had him hotter than he’d ever been. Yet the last thing any fire fighter needed was to get burned off duty ….

AMERICAN HEROES: Men who give all they’ve got for their country, their work—the women they love.