A broken family. A deadly hobby. Can a young arsonist and firefighter rise from the cinders of their painful past?Thirteen-year-old Jessie hopes a stepfather will fix her fractured home. But with her older brother missing and her mother struggling to cope, Jessie feels more helpless with each passing day. Desperate to control something in her life, she sets her first fire and ignites a dangerous obsession.Firefighter and medic Zach would do anything for the young girl who idolizes him. But with Jessie's mother slipping away from him a little more every day, he fears his love won't be enough to save her. When a series of arson cases escalates, it reminds Zach of a pattern eerily similar to the brother he couldn't save…When Jessie's pain causes her to strike match after match, she captures the attention of a fellow loner willing to teach the girl his secrets. And unless Zach can put two and two together in time to save Jessie, the family he's desperate to piece together will fracture.As the blazes spread, will a young girl's cry for help bring them together, or burn everything to ash? AMY WAESCHLE is the author of Going Over the Falls and Chasing Waves, A Surfer's Tale of Obsessive Wandering. She developed the Cassidy Kincaid missing series because she wanted a way to combine her love of Costa Rica with her passion for volcanoes and earth science. You can find out more about amy at goingoverthefalls.com.
