Fire and Steel
She's in flames. He's her firebreak.
By Prasanth N.M.

A trail of ashes. A pattern no one sees. A killer who speaks in flame.

When a series of meticulously staged fires devastate a quiet stretch of the Pacific Northwest, Fire Investigator Aidan Mercer is called in to track the blaze back to its source. Stoic, battle-scarred, and haunted by a past he never talks about, Mercer is a man who trusts evidence, not people.

Enter Arden Tran, a brilliant but volatile arson profiler with a past as incendiary as the crimes she studies. Her theories are unorthodox. Her methods, unsettling. But her instincts? Deadly accurate.

As the fires grow bolder and more symbolic, Arden and Mercer are forced into a dangerous partnership, one that blurs the line between professional and personal, logic and emotion. Together, they begin to unravel a twisted manifesto written in soot and smoke.

But someone's watching. Feeding the flames. And when the fire turns personal, it's not just about stopping a killer. It's about surviving each other.

In a world where obsession burns hotter than justice, can two broken experts outwit a mind that turns trauma into terror?