"Troubled by the feeling that she belongs nowhere after working in East Africa for 15 years, Frankie Rowley has come home--home to the small New Hampshire town of Pomeroy and the farmhouse where her family has always summered. On her first night back, a house up the road burns to the ground. Is it an accident, or arson? Over the weeks that follow, as Frankie comes to recognize her father's slow failing and her mother's desperation, another house burns,...

Fire cop Tess Gannon on the trail of a pryomaniac who's setting fires to buildings throughout Somersett, South Carolina. ATF Special Agent Gage O'Halloran arrives on her fire scene, after self-imposed exile. Gage suspects Tess's "Flamemaster" is connected to a serial killer he apprehended three years ago.

A young pyromaniac in Indiana seeks the origin of her obsession. Unless she can explain it, Ella is afraid she will burn even bigger buildings than the barns and houses so far. Could her obsession be connected to the family's association with the Ku Klux Klan? Ella goes looking for an aunt, hoping she will provide an answer. A first novel.