When several people burned alive in their homes under mysterious circumstances, Abby Mullen, a negotiator for the New York Police, immediately felt it: the horrors of the past had returned. As a girl, Abby miraculously escaped a fire set by Moses Wilcox, a fanatical cult leader. He had been considered dead for thirty years. But now, his traces remained at all the crime scenes...
Meanwhile, the arsons caught the attention of the FBI, and the storm of serial killers, brilliant profiler Zoe Bentley, is on Moses's trail. Zoe had never dealt with cultists before. She needs someone who understands Moses's thoughts – someone like Abby Mullen...
For Abby, this is a huge stress. Many memories she dreams of burying forever: of the cult that poisoned her childhood, of the fire that killed her family, and of the man who caused it... But unexpectedly, the tandem of the profiler and the negotiator begins to work. The hunt for the killer will continue – even if it means tearing apart the blazing embers of Abby's past with bare hands...
