title: The Fireman's Wife: A Novel
author:  Jack Riggs 
description: The unhappy wife of a fireman in 1970 realizes too late that her independence comes at a high price in Riggs's often heavy-handed novel. Early pregnancy forced Cassie Johnson into a marriage and a life she wasn't sure she wanted. Her husband Peck's job as their small South Carolina town's fire chief prevents him from giving her the attention she craves. Cassie finds solace in the arms of another fireman, Clay Taylor, and leaves town with him, determined to start over, but when she realizes she's just repeating her mistakes, she flees to her mother in the mountains for some soul searching. Soon she realizes the unexpected and tragic consequences of her actions. Riggs's 1970s South bears little resemblance to the South of social turmoil, and he overuses tired metaphors of rain, drought and oppressive humidity. But despite Cassie's lack of complexity, Riggs captures her internal life well and gives her conflicts legitimacy and gravitas. <i>(Jan.)</i> <br />Copyright  Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
zlib_text: Her Older Fireman
  Daddy Knows Better, Book 5
  by Liz Fox
  
  Copyright © 2020 by Liz Fox
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  Portions of this book are works of fiction. Any references to historical events, real people, or real
  places are used fictitiously. Other names, characters, places and events are products of the author's
  imagination, and any resemblances to actual events or places or persons, living or dead, is entirely
  coincidental.
  Edited by Cassidy Taylor
  Liz Fox
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  Table of Contents
  Chapter 1
  Chapter 2
  Chapter 3
  Chapter 4
  Chapter 5
  Chapter 6
  Chapter 7
  Chapter 8
  Epilogue
  Bonus Epilogue
  Thank You
  Also by Liz Fox
  About the Author
  
  Chapter 1
  Maddie
  “Are you ready for a kissing movie?” Colette sings as she flops onto the threadbare couch. It’s old
  —like everything else in the trailer—but