Seventeen-year-old competitive dancer Kerry has gotten away from her overbearing mother for the summer to work in Northern Ontario, surveying campsite locations. She's not too sure about her fellow surveyor, Yvette, their boss is a sexist hardass, and the job appears to be more work than she was anticipating. But things take a serious turn when fires are deliberately set in the forest, uprooting the girls from their jobs and throwing the area into turmoil. It's all hands on deck in a forest fire, and Yvette and Kerry become cooks for a camp of firefighters. The fires set a backdrop of constant menace, as the camp has to move to avoid becoming trapped, while the menace from within the camp reaches a fever pitch: being the only two girls in a camp full of men is precarious enough, but someone is setting the fires and hoping to pin the blame on Yvette. Meanwhile, Kerry's budding romance with a First Nations firefighter who knows more than he is saying is creating conflict between the two girls. It's a long hot summer, and Kerry will need to stay on her toes to stay out of harm's way.

 

There are 204 pages in this book. This book was published 2013 by Tundra Books .