Flame of Obsession

When several people mysteriously burned to death in their homes, Abby Mullen, a negotiator with the New York police, immediately felt: the horrors of the past have 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 remain at all crime scenes....
Meanwhile, the arsons have attracted the FBI's attention, and on Moses' trail stands the scourge of serial killers, brilliant profiler Zoe Bentley. Zoe has never dealt with cultists before. She needs someone who understands Moses' thoughts – someone like Abby Mullen...
For Abby, this is an enormous stress. Many memories she dreams of burying forever: about the cult that poisoned her childhood, about the fire that killed her family, and about the man who caused it... But unexpectedly, the tandem of the profiler and the negotiator starts to work. The hunt for the killer will continue – even if it means pulling the burning embers of Abby's past out with bare hands...