A farmhouse explodes in the middle of the night.
The town drunk finds a burned finger on his front porch.
An elderly woman is left to burn in an abandoned building.
A serial arsonist hides in plain site, plying his fiery trade in the dead of night. Who will his next victim be?

Boone Childress is a former Navy intelligence operator, a hero turned firefighter who returned home to the North Carolina mountains to pursue a career in forensic investigation, but when a series of arsons points to murder and greed, he finds himself stymied by a corrupt law officer and tight-knit southern society. Everybody, it seems, has a secret to hide.

A hero doesn’t need medals to prove what he’s made of. Just the chance to do what’s right.

An adult crime thriller by award-winning author David Macinnis Gill.