Synopsis
Bestselling author JoAnn Ross turns up the heat in a novel of heart-stopping suspense and white-hot passion that takes listeners from the sultry South Carolina Lowcountry to the rugged Northern California coast, and ultimately into the darkest reaches of the human heart…
Fire cop Tess Gannon is hot on the trail of a pyromaniac who’s been setting buildings ablaze throughout Somersett, South Carolina, when ATF Special Agent Gage O’Halloran arrives on her fire scene. Coming out of a self-imposed exile, Gage suspects that Tess’s "Flamemaster" is connected to a serial killed he apprehended three years ago.
Tess doesn’t like Gage. He’s too rude. Too arrogant. Too damn...male. Worse yet, she doesn’t trust him. Forced into an uneasy alliance, Tess and Gage race to stop the killer from striking another fatal match. But Gage’s fragile hope for redemption is put to the test when Tess becomes ensnared in a homicidal pyromaniac’s deadly obsession. And time is running out…
Publishers Weekly
In bestseller Ross's intense, seamlessly plotted novel of romantic suspense, Tess Gannon, who's been a fire investigator in Somersett, S.C., since her firefighter fianc , Danny, died two years earlier in a mill fire, teams up with former ATF Special Agent Gage O'Halloran, a widower, to look into an apartment fire that Gage believes was set by a serial arsonist. As Tess and Gage try to solve the arson case, they engage in sizzling foreplay, rendered all the more powerful by the excess emotional baggage that each carries. Gage's overt sexual references, rather than being offensive, seem to match his personality, that of a devil-may-care cowboy who lives for the moment. He's also a talented investigator who becomes immersed in the captivating mystery surrounding the serial arsons, which may be connected to the mill fire that killed Danny. Though the man known as the Flamemaster, who murdered Gage's wife, is now in San Quentin, this new arsonist is a clever copycat, writing threatening letters to the Somersett newspaper signed "Flamemaster." Ross (Out of the Mist) keeps the heat on right to the last page. Agent, Robert Gottlieb at Trident Media Group. (Aug.) Copyright 2005 Reed Business Information.