All Compact of Fire

SUMMER MCCLELLAN is a forty year-old housewife, a lover of poetry, a woman lost in a twenty year marriage. She heads for Tranquility, Maine, a place she had seen once on a map, as a storm crashes around her.

J.C. BEATTY. younger by ten years, is a potter in the Maine woods, safe he believes in his secluded world of peace.

And on the Solstice, as the earth is warmed by the sun, they come together to confront themselves-Summer her past; J.C. his silent rage.

ALL COMPACT OF FIRE is a story of love and adultery, of regret and forgiveness, and of Summer McClellan's journey-from her life in Pennsylvania where she had disappeared, to the unknown in Maine where she had yet to be.