Hailed as "an intricate and seductive first novel" (The Globe and Mail,Toronto), Burning Ground introduces one of the more memorable heroines in recent literary fiction. When Percy Turner begins a seventh season of summer work in a fire tower deep inthe Canadian woods, she is hanging on to her emotional stability by a thread.Completely isolated from the outside world and ensconced in the cocoon of her tower, she spends her days scanning the horizon for "smokes"-ranger-speak for forest fires. But the fires smoldering within her are more difficult to spot.She's haunted by a lifelong passion for her best friend, Marlea, who has a male lover but wants Percy, too, and also by a troubled family past. When Percy discovers an underground fire, she abandons her post and sets off on a vision quest to bring herself face-to-face with fires both without and within. Set in a harsh wilderness landscape, singed with bold eroticism and unflinching honesty, Burning Ground heralds the arrival of an original voice in contemporary fiction.