Judith Van Gieson

Nine firefighters die in a forest near Albuquerque and the parents of the victims engage lawyer Neil Hammel to sue the government. When Neil visits the scene another fire breaks out and she is nearly killed. A look at the politics and passion of forest fires: should man or nature have the final say?

The "annual" Saint Patrick's Day party hosted by Tim and Jamie Malone in their small northern New Mexico community is their first in many years. But it also marks their last as they prepare to move to the Midwest. For Albuquerque attorney Neil Hamel, going to the party is a reunion of sorts with various old friends she spent a year carousing with in a small town in Mexico in the late 1960s. 

Just about everyone seems to have made some move from

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