Captive on the Fire Line
A Time-Slip Novel

About this book:

The sky over Yellowstone has turned the color of a bruise, and for Marcus Vance—an inmate on Nevada's Crew 4, earning six-fifty a day to dig fireline in orange Nomex—the Boundary Complex is just another brutal shift. Until the wind dies, the column tilts, and a wall of flame vaporizes the ridge. In the desperate scramble for the trucks, Marcus drags a fallen crewmate through a firestorm that doesn't just burn the forest—it tears a hole in the calendar.

Thrown back to a summer of drought four centuries past, Marcus lands in the basin of the Shoshone, where the only fire crew is a band of outcasts surviving on bitterroot and hard-won knowledge of the land. No radios. No air support. No guarantee of return. But the fire doesn't care about century or status; it only knows fuel, wind, and the physics of combustion. To survive, Marcus must trade his Pulaski for a digging stick, his crew boss for a medicine woman, and his sentence for a fight that spans 1603 to the present day.

*Captive on the Fire Line* fuses the white-knuckle realism of a wildfire thriller with the sweep of a time-slip epic. From the convection columns of the Absarokas to the smoke-hazed ridges of a pre-contact West, this is survival fiction at its most visceral—where the line between past and present is cut as thin as a handline in cured duff, and the only way out is through the flames.