Playing with Fire

Content : The pine forest is in flames, the fires keep happening. Coincidence... Or is someone playing with fire?

Lou-Mi is spending her vacation with her brother PH, their father, and his partner on the shores of the Mediterranean. She becomes friends with Brunilde, a young environmentalist who is passionate about trees and horrified by mass tourism and real estate developments that are disfiguring "her" pine forest.

Day after day, fires break out in the forest. Water bombers and firefighters are constantly on alert. Brunilde is drawn to Steven, a trainee firefighter who is passionate about his future profession.

Soon, she and Lou-Mi notice a man with a suspicious look. Could the fires be intentional? They decide to investigate. But danger is getting closer...

Sophie Rigal-Goulard returns to a genre she loves: the atmospheric novel, rich in suspense.

Teenage protagonists who, over the course of a summer, discover the fragility of the pine forest, learn about the work of firefighters, and become involved in environmental causes.

A highly realistic plot that keeps the reader on edge, torn between multiple possibilities, never quite sure where the truth lies: accidental fires or the actions of an arsonist?