Familiar Heat Book

Mary Hood's lyrical, humorous, and down-to-earth novel lays bare marriage with all its intangible dreams and mysteries and reveals the subtle web of personalities and events that characterize a small town. When a brutal accident leaves Faye Parry with permanent amnesia, her new husband, Vic Rios—a sea captain and reformed rake—reverts to his old ways, resulting in an estrangement that seems irreparable.

In Hood's beguiling first novel, Fay Parry is recently and happily married to a Cuban charter-boat captain and former rake. When an accident leaves her without memory of who she is, her husband reverts to his old rakish ways which strains their relationship even more. Hood's tale is a world where both love and memory can perish and yet reflower in wholly unexpected ways.