{"product_id":"red-flag-lee-emerick-9798237328851","title":"Red Flag","description":"\u003cp\u003eSigrid Halvorsen has spent eleven seasons jumping fire. She's exact, load-bearing, the one crews want on the line when a fire stops behaving - which is exactly why it's a problem when her calls stop sounding like fire sense.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHer grandmother Astrid raised her on the old stories from the country Astrid left as a girl: a wolf that gets loose before the end, a sun it swallows, a flood that comes for ground that should be dry, three winters with no summer between them, and a last battle on the plain that nothing walks away from whole. Astrid isn't just telling stories anymore. She's losing everything else - names, faces, the year, her own son's death - but the cycle comes out of her whole and in order, like it's the last load-bearing wall left standing in a house coming down around it.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThen the season starts matching it. A fire gets loose exactly where Sig said it would, four minutes before the official read caught it. A smoke inversion blacks out the sky at midday for a week. A flood takes a burn scar nobody flagged, on Sig's timeline instead of the National Weather Service's. Every one of it is explicable - inversion layers, fuel moisture, a sharper read on the same instruments everyone else has. Every one of it is also, in order, exactly what Astrid said would come next.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSig's base manager files it as a woman coming apart under a brutal season and starts building a case to pull her off the line. The base's fire behavior analyst starts running her models against Sig's tally instead of against the forecast. And Sig keeps a private count the way she was trained to track spot weather - not because she's sure what it means, but because so far it has never once been wrong.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThere's one sign left. Sig has never told anyone its name, because she doesn't want it to be true, and because the whole crew she loves - her jump partner, a rookie she's responsible for, the old-timer who's been quietly keeping his own tally for fifteen years - is about to walk into exactly the kind of fire it describes.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSome doors only open the same direction once. Sig is about to find out whether it's her turn to walk through it, or her turn to hold it shut.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Lee Emerick\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9798237328851\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Lee Emerick Publishing\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/25\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 342\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.75lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.00h x 5.00w x 0.76d","brand":"Lee Emerick","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":50848694108415,"sku":"9798237328851","price":18.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/red-flag-lee-emerick-9798237328851","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}