I LOVE - LOVE - LOVE it when talented storytellers like Julie Musil let their stories take flight on the indie winds. You will want to stay tuned for her launch date.
THE BOY WHO LOVED FIRE is a gripping story.
A story as riveting as this one is deserves an equally riveting cover.
Mission accomplished.
Genre: Contemporary YA with a splash of ghosts
Manny O’Donnell revels in his status at the top
of his high school food chain. He and his friends party in the mountains on a
blustery night, sharing liquor and lame ghost stories around a campfire. The
next morning, as a wild fire rages in those same mountains, Manny experiences
doubt. He was the last of the drunken crew to leave the cave, and he’s
uncertain if he extinguished the flames. Within hours, he becomes the number
one arson suspect.
Santa Ana winds + matches = disaster. You’d
think he would've learned that the first time he started a fire.
As he evades a determined arson investigator,
Manny, a modern-day Scrooge, is visited by ghosts of the past, present, and
future. He’s forced to witness the fate of his inadvertent victims, including
Abigail, the scarred beauty who softens his heart. Manny must choose between
turning around his callous, self-centered attitude, or protecting his own skin
at the expense of anyone who gets in his way.
