Few women make it into the macho ranks of New York City's Bravest—the FDNY—where brute force and brotherhood are the only respected currencies. Fewer still get promoted to arson investigator. But New York City firefighter Georgia Skeehan is no ordinary woman. A single mom and motorcycle enthusiast, she's tormented by a fatal mistake and her own fears that she can never live up to her hero firefighter dad, who died in the line of duty. When a Manhattan building goes up in flames, incinerating dozens of prominent New Yorkers, Georgia is tapped to help solve one of the city's most gruesome arson crimes ever. Everything about this blaze is shrouded in mystery. The biblical intensity of the fire. Its connection to other arsons. The strange reticence within her own department. And most of all, the eerie, scripture-laden taunts of a madman who keeps raising the stakes until even Georgia herself is a target. To stop an even more catastrophic inferno, Georgia will have to wrestle with both the hard science of arson investigation and the backroom politics of big-city firefighting. The only way out of this scorcher is through it.