The Stars Are Fire: A Novel Audiobook (Free)

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From the brand new York Times best-selling writer of The Weight of Water as well as the Pilot’s Wife (an Oprah’s Book Club selection): an exquisitely suspenseful new book about an extraordinary young female tested by a catastrophic event and its own devastating aftermath–based on the true story of the largest open fire in Maine’s history

In October 1947, after a summertime long drought, fires break out all along the Maine coast from Club Harbor to Kittery and so are soon racing out of about The Superstars Are Fire: A Book control from town to village. Five weeks pregnant, Elegance Holland is still left alone to safeguard her two small children when her hubby, Gene, joins the volunteer firefighters. Along with her closest friend, Rosie, and Rosie’s two small children, Sophistication watches helplessly as their houses burn to the ground, the flames finally forcing all of them into the sea as a last resort. The ladies spend the night frantically safeguarding their children, and each day discover their lives forever changed: homeless, penniless, awaiting information of their husbands’ fate, and left to handle an uncertain upcoming in a city that no longer exists. Amid this devastating loss, Grace discovers glorious brand-new freedoms–joys and triumphs she could do not have expected her narrow existence with Gene could contain–and her soul soars. And then the unthinkable happens–and Grace’s bravery is usually tested as nothing you’ve seen prior.