Festival in Fire Season

by Ellyn Bache

A devastating wildfire moves toward a North Carolina beach town during its annual Azalea Festival. As the crisis approaches, three lives touch and entwine-a high school administrator, a feisty "Azalea Princess," and a beautiful but unhappy jewelry maker. In the ensuing firestorm, each is forced to confront what they fear most.

240 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1992

About the author

Ellyn Bache is the author of nine novels, including Safe Passage, which was made into a movie starring Susan Sarandon, and The Art of Saying Goodbye, which was chosen as an “Okra Pick” by the Southeastern Independent Booksellers Alliance. She began her career writing short stories for women’s magazines like McCall’s and Good Housekeeping, some of which have recently been collected in Kaleidoscope: 20 Stories Celebrating Women’s Magazine Fiction. She has also published dozens of literary stories, including those which appeared in a collection that won the Willa Cather Fiction Prize. After many years living in Wilmington, NC, she moved to Greenville, SC, a lovely city but much too far from the ocean. Visit her at www.ellynbache.com