The Ember We Buried

Ten years after a wildfire killed her father and scarred her hometown, smokejumper Wren Okafor is sent back to Halden Ridge as the mountains catch fire again — this time with her estranged brother trapped inside the evacuation zone. She has six hours before the blaze swallows the valley whole, but every mile closer to him drags up the night she swore never to speak of, and the innocent man still serving time for it.