by Susan Wittig Albert

It’s Labor Day weekend, 1935, and members of the Darling Dahlias–the garden club in little Darling, Alabama–are trying to keep their cool at the end of a sizzling summer.  This isn’t easy, though, since there’s a firebug on the loose in Darling.  He–or she!–strikkes without apparent rhyme or reason, and things have gotten to the point where nobody feels safe.