No Way to Forget: Some Wounds Never Close...Some Secrets Never Stay Buried

She left him without an explanation.
Now she's back in his town, working a case that could burn everything down.

Fire investigator Lena Vasquez came to Kalloway to do one job: prove the fires are arson, follow the money, and help close the case. She did not come back for Dex Maddox.

Eight years ago, Lena walked away from the man she couldn't forget. Now Dex is everywhere, in the marsh, at the fire scene, in the middle of a case that gets darker every time she pulls another thread.

The fires aren't random.
The motive is money.
And somebody has spent a long time making sure the truth stays buried.

As Lena and Dex get closer to the arsonist, the danger turns personal fast. Because this case is tied to old secrets, old wounds, and the one thing neither of them has ever really escaped, what happened between them.

She told herself the case would end and she'd leave again.
She told herself there was nothing left between them worth risking.
She was wrong about both.