The Girl the Fire Kept

Some fires are not accidents. Some fires are architecture.

Beauty is always a lie. Detective Frank Miller knew that the moment he stepped onto the rain-soaked balcony of a Seattle penthouse and saw a suicide too perfect to be real.

What he doesn't know is that someone has been waiting a very long time for him to find it.

Jack Thorne arrived in Seattle with a plan, a patience that borders on the inhuman, and a secret that could bring down one of the city's most decorated detectives. He is not here by accident. Nothing about Jack Thorne is ever by accident.

And somewhere in this city, living a life she believes is entirely her own, is the girl the fire kept.

As Frank's investigation pulls him deeper into Jack's web, the past that one man has spent his career burying begins to surface. Some truths cannot be staged. Some fires cannot be put out. And some debts only come due when the person owed them decides it is time.

A propulsive debut of razor-sharp suspense, The Girl the Fire Kept is a story about identity, corruption, and what it costs to finally speak your own name.