After weeks of fire danger warnings and several wildfire flare-ups, the residents of Sockeye County, Washington are on edge. When a fire threatens the Imogene Museum, curator Meredith Morehouse realizes the frequency and increasing size of the conflagrations aren't as random as they first appeared.

Meredith already has her hands full with a brand new endowment for shoring up the Imogene's crumbling foundation, plus the imminent arrival of the most valuable collection that the museum has scored to date. And Meredith's significant other, the rugged Pete Sills, wants another kind of date—a nonnegotiable wedding date.

Can Meredith and Pete and Sheriff Marge Stettler stop the arsonist before their tinder-dry community goes up in flames?