“Fire was everything Joey wanted to be. Exciting. Dangerous. Beautiful. Destructive. And yet he controlled it. Other people were too boring, too afraid to do what he did.”

—  Lis Wiehl

Source: Heart of Ice A Triple Threat Novel with April Henry (Thomas Nelson), p. 81

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American legal scholar 1961

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