About House on Fire
How far would you go to keep a promise?
Neo-hippie turned ICU nurse, Bernadette Rogers is no stranger to the blunt realities of death. But her mother’s request to help her father—who’s disappearing into the abyss of dementia—go “peacefully” blindsides her. Her mother thinks it’s assisted suicide. Bernadette knows better.
Even if they do it for all the right reasons, it would still be murder.
The day her father lined the whole family up and made them promise never to put him in a nursing home was the day that divided them — they just didn’t realize it. But that’s the funny thing about promises, people can have their own versions of the truth.
Surrounded by conflicting voices and with her mother reaching the end of her rope, Bernadette starts to wonder what she actually swore to. When her best friend offers a potential solution, Bernadette must make an agonizing decision about her beloved father and figure out just how far she’s willing to go for love.
For fans of Jodi Picoult and Lisa Genova, House on Fire is an unforgettable story of family, friendship, and the promises we aren’t sure anyone should honor.
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About the Author
D. Liebhart is a nurse and writer. She writes (and sometimes lives) stories about ordinary people in extraordinary circumstances, where they learn that life is rarely predictable and answers to life’s most complex questions are almost never black and white.
House on Fire, her debut novel, was long-listed for the 2022 Petrichor Prize. Her essay Thalassophobia (a true account of a very out-of-the-ordinary honeymoon) won the 2021 Linda Julian Creative Nonfiction Prize from Emrys Journal and is available on her website.