While not every title we publish becomes a New York Times bestseller or a national bestseller, we are committed to books on subjects that are sometimes overlooked and to authors whose work might not otherwise find a home. Skyhorse Publishing, as well as our Arcade, Yucca, and Good Books imprints, are proud to publish a broad range of books for readers interested in fictionnovels, novellas, political and medical thrillers, comedy, satire, historical fiction, romance, erotic and love stories, mystery, classic literature, folklore and mythology, literary classics including Shakespeare, Dumas, Wilde, Cather, and much more. Fans of the movie Backdraft or Cheryl Strayed’s memoir Wild will enjoy this fast paced debut. Wildfire is a tough, gritty, and fascinating story from an exciting new voice in American fiction. As her season on the line” progresses so do her relationships with the strange and varied cast of characters that make up her hotshots teamand she learns what it means to put your life on the line for someone else. The only woman on the twenty person crew, Julie struggles both to prove her worth and find a place of belonging in the dangerous, insular, and very masculine world of fire (while also fighting against an eating disorder she's had since her teens).

Her pyromania leads her to take an unlikely job as a forest firefighter on an elite, Type 1 Hotshot” crew of forest firefighters who travel the American West battling wildfires. Julie has an obsession with fire that began after her parents died when she was twelve years old.

Wildfire by Mary Pauline Lowry