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Things you save in a fire5/28/2023 ![]() The follow-up to Center’s breakout hit, How to Walk Away (2018), in which Cassie had a brief cameo, has all the hallmarks that made readers fall in love with the previous book: an appealing (if guarded, in this case) heroine, a compelling love story, a tear-jerking twist, and a thoroughly absorbing story. Cassie, who has spent her adult life avoiding romantic attachments, falls head over heels for the handsome rookie at the station. And then the worst thing in the world happens. ![]() Cassie reluctantly moves in with Diana and is forced to start over with a new fire department, one more sexist and backward-thinking than the one she came from. Ten years ago, Cassie was raped by Heath Thompson a fellow student at her high school. ![]() Now a firefighter in Austin, Cassie loves her job and her team until a run-in with the man who assaulted her on the night her mother left costs her both. Cassie Hanwell is a 26-year-old firefighter and a rising star of the Austin Fire Department. ![]() Martin’s, follows Cassie, an Austin, Texas, firefighter who moves to Boston to care for her. Missy Peregrym, the actor known for her roles in Van Helsing and FBI, is producing the adaptation of Center’s 2019 book. ![]() So, a decade later, when Diana calls to tell Cassie that she’s lost her vision in one eye and asks Cassie to move across the country to take care of her, Cassie is anything but eager. Katherine Center’s Things You Save in a Fire is headed to the big screen, Deadline reports. Cassie Hanwell has never forgiven her mother, Diana, for leaving her and her father on Cassie’s sixteenth birthday. ![]()
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