Set in the scorching summer of 1970, on the parched earth of South Carolina's low country. The Fireman's Wife tells the deeply affecting story of Cassie Johnson, a young wife and mother who, after 15 years of marriage, can no longer ignore the nagging sense that her life has gone astray. It will take a journey back to the North Carolina Mountains where there will be unexpected battles she will have to fight before Cassie will find the true love that has always surrounded her, a love that resides unrecognized, deep in the heart.

Alternating gracefully between the two main characters' points of view, The Fireman's Wife lucidly and sensitively portrays a young family's struggle to stay together, and their dawning realization that, sometimes, it may get better, and less dangerous, to just let go.