She’s getting too close to the truth. And her ex-husband.
When investigative journalist Arden Olsen discovers her mentor’s burned body, she knows the killer will strike again. What she doesn’t expect is to become the next target.
FBI agent Lawson Mitchell has spent years trying to forget his ex-wife—and the child they lost, a tragedy that destroyed their marriage. But when Arden starts digging into the murder, Lawson realizes the killer isn’t just watching her.
They're hunting her.
Now Lawson has one job: keep Arden alive. Even if protecting her means reopening every wound between them. Even if staying close to the woman he never stopped loving could cost him everything.
As the bodies pile up and the killer closes in, Arden and Lawson must put their guilt, anger and shattered past aside to stop them.
Because this time, the fire isn’t the only thing threatening to consume them.
Someone wants her dead. Lawson wants her back. And Arden may not survive either.
“Arden?” That voice. His voice. She’d prayed every night she’d forget how her name on his lips warmed the darkest stretches of her insides, but her traitorous body hadn’t forgotten him in the least. “What… What are you doing here?”
Gravity increased its hold on her legs as Special Agent Lawson Mitchell of the FBI’s Violent Crimes Unit closed in on her. Apprehension climbed up her spine, the light touch at her elbow from the sheriff’s deputy a distant sensation. Thick eyebrows and dark, styled hair shaped a perfectly symmetrical and chiseled jawline and brought out the color in his storm gray eyes. His pristine navy-blue suit and white button-down shirt begged for relief from the mountainous stretch of muscled shoulders beneath the fabric. Every inch of the man she’d tried to forget triggered her instincts to run. Not out of danger but something far more terrifying: remembered attraction.