Together atop Sapphire Lookout One of my very favorite characters is Kee Smith (now Stevenson). She slammed onto the scene in Night Stalkers #2 I Own the Dawn (a seriously good title for Kee as I could easily see her taking personal possession of the rising sun herself). She has returned many times, most notably in Night Stalkers #3 Wait Until Dark and Firehawks #1 Pure Heat. She is always a force to be reckoned with. In this story, I knew that I wanted to write another Fire Lookout Tower story, but I didn’t know much more than that. The first intriguing thing I came up with was the discovery of the Continental Divide Trail. I had a friend who hiked the Appalachian Trail as therapy to recover from a horrific car accident during college. We talked at length about hiking the Pacific Crest