Gin has been satisfied moving from city to city, never putting down roots or making commitments. But when engine trouble temporarily strandsher daughter Raine in the small town of Banister Falls, Wisconsin, Gin promises her daughter they will stay put until Raine graduates from high school in the spring. Some unexpcted news and a blossoming relationship with local firefighter Dan Moretti make Gin want to leave town, but she and Dan must work together...

After dressing up as fire fighters, building a fire truck out of a cardboard box, and extinguishing imaginary fires on the playground, Mrs. Iverson's students are surprised by the arrival of a real fire engine with real fire fighters on board.

Relates the tall tale adventures of Mose Humphries, a nineteenth-century fireman in New York City.

"Riley Madigan moves to Miracle Creek to nurse a broken heart, but when she meets Mark Rivers, a former firefighter who was badly burned during a rescue operation, she must decide if she is willing to risk loving again"--

While on a field trip to a fire station with Mrs. Gray's class, Curious George goes off on his own and is soon at the scene of a fire, where he finds a way to be helpful.