Los Angeles homicide detective Elouise "Lou" Norton arrives at the scene of a tragic house fire, to find the bodies of a mother and two children. Left behind is grieving husband Christopher Chatman. Unless, of course, he's the one who killed them. Or was the fire sparked by a serial arsonist known as The Burning Man? Searching for justice through the ashes of a picture-perfect family, Lou doesn't know if she will catch an arsonist or be burned ...

Rachel Howzell Hall is the author of the critically acclaimed Detective Elouise Norton series, as well as Quiet Storm, which received a starred review from Library Journal, as well as a positive review from Publishers Weekly, and was a featured selection for Borders' Original Voices program. Her day job is in cancer research. She lives in Los Angeles.