Characters
- Will Gatlin – A 37-year-old ranger who mans a fire watch tower in the forest.
- Sandy MacKenzie – A brash 19-year-old woman who is falling in love with the forest.
- Art Ballentine – A college professor and friend of Will's.
- Elsie Ballentine – Art's wife
- Gloria Hollenbeck – A friend of Sandy's who Will thinks of as the "rodeo queen."
- Wendell – Will's boss, who he reports into every morning from the fire watch tower
- Lawrence J. Turner the Third – Sandy's fiance and a 23-year-old Air Force cadet
- Rosalie – A woman Will would see on a semi-regular basis for sex who lived 90 miles away with her three children
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