The Fires

Rene Steinke

first published 1999 Morrow, 1999 243 pages

Smoke has as many different scents as skin. Part of the pleasure is not knowing what it will be — sulfurous or closer to incense or airier and sweeter as I imagine the smell of clouds.Ella is a connoisseur of fire, a woman enthralled by it as other women are by love. She savors the seductive promise of a spark, the caress of a curling wisp of smoke, the all-consuming hunger of a spreading blaze. Ella's heart seethes...

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Don't Cry Now ebook · 2009 · HarperCollins · 9780061952111
Fires edition · 2008 · HarperCollins Publishers · 9780061669774
Fires edition · 2008 · HarperCollins Publishers · 9780061669781
The Fires ebook · 2008 · HarperCollins · 9780061669750
Fires edition · 2008 · HarperCollins Publishers · 9780061669804
Fires edition · 2008 · HarperCollins Publishers · 9780061669798
The Fires paperback · 2000 · Harper Perennial · 256 pages · 9780688175849
The fires edition · 1999 · Morrow · 243 pages

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