#BlogTour ‘The Time Of The Fire’ by Emma Kavanagh

About the book…

Northern California, end of summer. Fire Hazard Severity Very High.

A mysterious death.
On the anniversary of her mother’s death, CEO-in-waiting Robyn Sandoval goes for a morning run. She knows her father – a local fire fighting hero – is desperate to speak to her, to tell her something he wants her to know before she starts her new job leading the corporation that owns most of their Northern Californian town of Destino. But when Robyn arrives, she finds him dead.

A devastating fire.
Meanwhile, after months of drought, a freak forest fire ignites on the mountain ridge looming over the town. Destino has never burned; its unique position protected by the seemingly insurmountable barrier of the ridge, a favourable wind direction, and a belief long held by the community that they are categorically safe.

A life split in two.
Robyn is shaken to the core by her father’s death, and her life is shattered in two, the fabric of her reality shorn by the sheer force of her grief.
The next time she wakes, everything is her father is alive, and there’s no sign of the fire on the ridge.

To understand what is happening, she has to confront not only the secrets of her past but both versions of her present. Because back in her world, the fire is spreading and the time to find answers is running out…

My thanks to Tracy Fenton of Compulsive Readers and publishers Orion for the blogtour invite and gifted review copy of ‘The Time Of The Fire’ by Emma Kavanagh

It is published in e-book format on January 30th, what a way to begin a year!
A searing story of literal and metaphorical fires burning and destroying lives without mercy, this is what happens when a normal, morning run takes a deadly turn for Robyn Sandoval.

Her father, desperate to see her before she takes up a new position in a company he has concerns about, has died in a fire. A fire fighting hero, killed by the very thing he spent his life controlling – a force both natural ,and very human, in the way it consumes, spreads and destroys.

Robyn’s all encompassing grief created a time slip where in one world, she has her father, but in the other he has died.

As well as trying to work out who and what wanted her father dead, her life spins down 2 very different rabbit holes-the fire which happened in one world but not the other, is waiting to engulf the past, and maybe the present and the future.

Deep, meaningful and allegorical, this may be a departure from the other psychological thrillers which I have read by this author, but at its heart are her distinctive traits of querying human behaviour, its motives, and the way it can, literally burn down worlds.

Beneath the characters and the driving plots which are such a corner stone of Emma’s writing, lies the love of a daughter for her father, for it had the power to fracture time itself.

But will what he has taught her, growing up, be enough for her to choose the right path to discovery, the truth and a better future?

Whether her dad is in it or not…

Loved the dual timeliness and the breathless race to the last page, the scenery tales on a character of its own with vivid depictions of a North American landscape which you can feel, smell and hear.

Simply put,it’s a terrific read!

About the author…
Emma Kavanagh was born and raised in South Wales.

After graduating with a PhD in Psychology from Cardiff University, she spent many years working as a police and military psychologist, training firearms officers, command staff and military personnel throughout the UK and Europe.

Now she is lucky enough to be able to write for a living. She lives in South Wales with her husband, young sons, and a dog named Dobby.

Twitter -@EmmaLK @Tr4cyF3nt0n @Orionbooks
Links-https://emmakavanagh.com/