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Fire Point by John Smolens. Originally published by Random House in 2004.
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At nineteen, Hannah LeClaire already has a reputation in the village of Whitefish Harbor. She is a lonely, fragile young woman given to long walks along the shores of Lake Superior, and on a raw April day she wanders into a dilapidated house and encounters Martin Reed, who has recently moved to Michigan’s Upper Peninsula with the intention of renovating the condemned Victorian once owned by his aunt. Quickly Hannah realizes that Martin is an outcast, too, and unlike anyone she has ever met.
Fire Point is the story of the summer Hannah and Martin attempt to rebuild their lives while restoring the house. But when Sean Colby returns to Michigan after a curiously sudden discharge from military service, he cannot abide the thought of Hannah, his former girlfriend, moving on without him. Sean’s obsession leads to a series of increasingly violent acts designed to thwart the dreams that Hannah and Martin have set out to build with their own hands.
Written in spare, graceful prose, Fire Point is a thrilling and suspenseful story of love, vengeance, and renewal, set against the pristine beauty of America’s great inland sea.
Fire Point was selected as Detroit Free Press Michigan Book of the Year.
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