A late night fire in Al's Hard Hat Bar near Barton City discovered by Alcona Deputy Sheriff Andrew Carmody brings Fire Inspector Daniel Colquhoun on the scene to investigate. When a body is discovered under the bar, the investigation becomes murder and arson. The main questions are: How did the fire start and whose body is it?
More fires and evidence of old fires point to an arsonist possibly just learning his trade. But a naked woman who escaped from a sex slave environment leads to a crystal meth lab and another fire and another body. Then a restaurant appears to have been torched? Are these fires related? Andrew Carmody and Daniel Colquhoun have their hands full trying to find the arsonist before there is another fire and a possible third death.