The Way You Burn
Book Feature - The Way You Burn by Christine Meade
HBL Note: After experiencing a house fire of my own, it seems like house fires are popping up everywhere in the books that cross my desk. Could this be the Baader-Meinhof Phenomenon or are house fires a new trend in fiction? Regardless, The Way You Burn sounds like a suspenseful read that will keep your heart racing. I found my heart racing just reading the synopsis. I’ll tell you one thing, I do not trust that girl Hope. She sounds like trouble. Scroll down to read more.
From the publisher:
“The Way You Burn” explores one young man’s attempts to understand the complicated pasts of his loved ones by unraveling the vast webs of secrets they’ve kept hidden. Yet as he uncovers their stories, he learns about the inescapable injustices faced by the women he’s known and the true depth of the human heart.
When David approaches his New Hampshire cabin one cool October night to find it engulfed in flames, he knows his girlfriend, Hope, set the fire. At least, he’s pretty sure he knows.
David first decides to upend the creature comforts of his post-collegiate life and try roughing it for a year after he inherits two acres of land and a rustic cabin from his deceased grandfather. Life at the cabin proves to be more difficult than expected, especially when David accidentally digs up clues that hint at a secret his grandfather hid from the family. And then there’s the woman he loves—Hope—whose dark past is written in the twisting pink scars covering her body. Their relationship is challenged after his car slides through an intersection one dark night and, later, when he realizes that someone is out there, watching him through the trees.
Over the course of five seasons, David struggles to maintain his relationship with Hope, vowing to be the one person she can count on in a world full of people who let her down. Ultimately, in an attempt to understand the sacrifices Hope has had to make, David decides to write down their story, making their fleeting romance at once permanent and timeless, demonstrating that things don’t have to last forever in order to be meaningful – or maybe even perfect.
