Daughters of Fire

<p><i>Daughters of Fire</i> is a gripping adventure of romance, intrigue, myth, and murder set amid the cultural tensions of today’s Hawaiʻi.</p><p><br></p><p><b>Winner of the Independent Book Publishers Association Benjamin Franklin Silver Finalist Award for Popular Fiction</b></p><p><br></p><p>A visiting astronomer falls in love with a Hawaiian anthropologist who guides him into a Polynesian world of volcanoes, gods, and revered ancestors. The lovers get caught up in murder and intrigue as developers and politicians try to conceal that a long-dormant volcano is rumbling back to life above the hotel-laden Kona coast. The anthropologist joins forces with an aging seer and a young activist, and these three Hawaiian women summon their deepest traditions to confront the latest, most extravagant resort as the eruption and the murder expose deep rifts in paradise.</p><p><br></p><p>Tom Peek’s mystical and provocative novel picks up Hawaiʻi’s story where James Michener left off. Daughters of Fire illuminates how the islands’ post-statehood transformation into a tourist mecca and developers gold mine sparked a Native Hawaiian movement to reclaim their culture, protect sacred land, and step into the future with wisdom and aloha.</p><p><br></p><p>Includes an illustrated map and 9 original pen-and-ink drawings created for the novel by John D. Dawson. Also includes a Reading Group Guide. </p><p><br></p><p>Originally published in 2012, <i>Daughters of Fire </i>has become a classic of modern Hawaiian fiction. This edition includes a new introduction by the author.</p>