A Fire Sparkling

by Julianne MacLean

Real life isn’t a dream. You have to keep your eyes open. Ears too.”

I wanted to believe in magic. I wanted to believe that in the end, the universe would take care of us, and we would end up exactly where we were meant to be.

The title of the book is drawn from a line in Shakespeare’s play Romeo and Juliet. “Love is a smoke rais’d with the fume of sighs; being purg’d, a fire sparkling in lovers’ eyes.”