We are in need of 7 bookstagrammers to help us promote
The Fire by Night by Teresa Messineo
which releases January 17, 2017. The tour will run from October 15- October 21 and there will be one stop each day. Your job will be to take an original photo that clearly promotes
The Fire by Night. A copy of the book will be provided. We will send information for your captions closer to the tour dates.
If you’d like to be considered to be a stop on this tour, please first
sign up as a tour host and then fill out the sign-up form [gravityform id="134" title="true" description="true"]
***Signups will close on Sept 17th at 12 pm MST***
Please note that signing up for a tour does not guarantee a spot on the tour. We will choose the hosts within a few days and we will email all the chosen hosts. You will be required to reply to the email confirming that you are still interested in the tour with in 24 hours. If you don’t reply we will pick another host. After everything is finalized we will post the tour schedule here and on our social media so you can follow along.
About the Book:
Title: The Fire by Night
Author: Teresa Messineo
Publication Date: January 17, 2017
Publisher: William Morrow
A powerful and evocative debut novel about two American military nurses during World War II that illuminates the unsung heroism of women who risked their lives in the fight—a riveting saga of friendship, valor, sacrifice, and survival combining the grit and selflessness of
Band of Brothers with the emotional resonance of
The Nightingale.
In war-torn France, Jo McMahon, an Italian-Irish girl from the tenements of Brooklyn, tends to six seriously wounded soldiers in a makeshift medical unit. Enemy bombs have destroyed her hospital convoy, and now Jo singlehandedly struggles to keep her patients and herself alive in a cramped and freezing tent close to German troops. There is a growing tenderness between her and one of her patients, a Scottish officer, but Jo’s heart is seared by the pain of all she has lost and seen. Nearing her breaking point, she fights to hold on to joyful memories of the past, to the times she shared with her best friend, Kay, whom she met in nursing school.
Half a world away in the Pacific, Kay is trapped in a squalid Japanese POW camp in Manila, one of thousands of Allied men, women, and children whose fates rest in the hands of a sadistic enemy. Far from the familiar safety of the small Pennsylvania coal town of her childhood, Kay clings to memories of her happy days posted in Hawaii, and the handsome flyer who swept her off her feet in the weeks before Pearl Harbor. Surrounded by cruelty and death, Kay battles to maintain her sanity and save lives as best she can . . . and live to see her beloved friend Jo once more.
When the conflict at last comes to an end, Jo and Kay discover that to achieve their own peace, they must find their place—and the hope of love—in a world that’s forever changed. With rich, superbly researched detail, Teresa Messineo’s thrilling novel brings to life the pain and uncertainty of war and the sustaining power of love and friendship, and illuminates the lives of the women who risked everything to save others during a horrifying time.
