Wow!! What a thrilling start to a book!

The reader is immediately drawn in to the real-life professional controversies swirling around Cadie in her role as an entomologist researching a pesky beetle that attacks pine trees and contributes to widespread devastation of forest fires. In itself, the drama builds as she is alone in the wilderness during an advancing fire, but add to that, a text from a former childhood friend who she hasn’t spoken to in 25 years, with the message “they’ve found him,” and you have the makings of a book that no one will want to put down!!