Fire Line Blood Line
An Urban Fantasy Family Saga

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When the Sentinel Complex fire jumps the interstate and races toward Oakhaven National Park, Ranger Jackson Vance doesn't reach for a radio—he reaches for an iron key and a blood oath older than the Park Service itself. Because the Vances don't just protect the park's two million acres of pine and scrub; they guard the seal on a mountain fault that holds something far older than flame. With his skeptical daughter Silas and a grandfather who speaks in riddles and warnings, Jackson has until the crown fire hits the ridge to reforge a ward line written in ancestry and sacrifice—or watch the whole West burn.

In a 2042 where drought is permanent and megafires make their own weather, the line between wildland firefighting and ancient duty has evaporated. The sensors read impossible temperatures. The ground runs cold beneath the blaze. And the shadow of the pyrocumulus cloud stretches like a hand reaching for the high meadow where the Vances have stood watch for three generations. *Fire Line Blood Line* fuses the visceral grit of the fireline with a family saga steeped in secret history, where every badge carries a weight no government form can explain.

From the smoke-choked valleys to the green impossible heart of High Meadow, the Vances will dig trenches with iron spears, bind wounds with silver wire, and swear the true oath that keeps the dark still. But the mountain is waking, the wards are cracking, and Silas is about to learn why her skin burns when lightning hits granite. Some fires can't be contained—only answered.