The diary which Anais Nin would eventually call Fire begins when she is newly arrived in New York City. Chronicling her unfulfilled marriage, affairs with Henry Miller and psychoanalyst Otto Rank, she confesses to her diary: "I'm awaiting a lover. I'm restless". "Erotically charged".--Publishers Weekly.

In this "erotically charged"(Publishers Weekly) diary that picks up where Incest left off, Nin chronicles a restless search for fulfillment that leads her to New York City-"that brilliant giant toy" -then back to Paris and Henry, and eventually into the arms of a passionate new lover.