When a series of arsons target Vermont antiques stores, Detective Adam Dutton and con-woman Beverly Laborde worry that a shop owned by their friend, Harlan, might be next. But the stakes take an even deeper and uglier turn after a body is found inside one of the burned buildings. Was it an accident, suicide... or murder? Adam and Beverly hoped they'd seen the last of a crime syndicate operating under the guise of the Northern Antiquities League and that they could finally put those dark memories behind them. But do the arsons signal the last gasp of the NAL? Or is a new mob threat rising from the ashes? With the help of the mysterious and resourceful "Mr. X," Adam and Beverly race to get to the bottom of the fires and the victim's puzzling death before any more lives are lost... including their own.