Burn Line – Paperback

Meg Larkin investigates fires for the state. She trusts burn patterns, char depth and what the evidence says, and she has no use for anyone who tells her to trust a feeling.

Then a wildfire above Ashford Ridge, Colorado, throws her flat in the ash, and the man who knocked her down turns out to be Cash Ridley, superintendent of the Ember Creek Hotshots. He has fought fire for twelve years, he does not talk about the season that cost him a friend, and he is the only person who can read the mountain as well as she can read a burn scar.

The fire was set. So was the next one. A county that wants an easy answer has already picked a man to blame, but Meg’s evidence does not agree, and somebody has begun to watch her work.

With a red flag warning on the horizon, a crew that would follow Cash anywhere and a trail that leads to the people she was told to trust, Meg has to decide who she can believe. Cash has to decide whether he can stand to be believed in return.

A brooding hotshot, an innocent investigator and a mountain ready to burn. Book 2 of No Safe Distance.