Ash and Ember
Someone is burning the churches of Juniper Falls, and leaving one thing unburned at every scene.
Someone is burning the churches of Juniper Falls, Oregon, and leaving one thing unburned at every scene. Hotshot superintendent Nate Corrigan reads fire behavior for a living, but this pattern reads him back.
Corrigan took the Juniper Peak job no one else wanted, in the town he left after Tamarack Ridge, where four of his crew did not come home. County fire marshal Hannah Pryor, once the girl he planned a life with, reads every scene the way he reads slope and wind. She must decide if the man who knows fire this well is her best asset or her first suspect.
Each fire is staged as a letter, tied to the seven letters in Revelation and to a compromise its congregation would rather keep quiet. The founding Bible left untouched in the ash at Grace Community was only the first delivery. No congregation knows if it is next.
Corrigan still does the work. Whether he can hold fast to the faith he walked away from, and hold his new crew together while the town counts its churches, is another question.
Can they decode the pattern before the next letter is delivered?