Including a new introduction by the author describing the story behind the novel's initial publication in the 1950s which sold an amazing 1.5 million copies. Spring Fire chronicles the story of Leda and Mitch, two sorority sisters at a Midwestern university who stumble into a forbidden love affair. Packer ends the novel unhappily in order to satisfy US postal inspectors who would have seized a novel that affirmed lesbian love, yet Spring Fire has nevertheless touched the lives of countless lesbian readers and cleared the way for hundreds of lesbian pulps since.