Fire Wives

Some fires destroy. Others reveal the truth.

A year after firefighter Jace Hale dies in a warehouse blaze ruled "accidental," nothing about the loss feels accidental to his widow, Aiyana. Strange noises in her home. Moved objects. A shadow that keeps returning. And a warning she can't explain.

When the fear becomes too much to ignore, she turns to the last person she ever expected to lean on-Gabe Montgomery, Jace's best friend and the man who's been quietly watching over her since the funeral. Gabe doesn't hesitate. He never has. But the moment he steps back into her life, he sees what she can't: the same pattern that killed Jace is starting again.

And this time, Aiyana is in the middle of it.

As Gabe digs into the fires the department keeps calling "electrical instability," he uncovers a network of corruption tied to redevelopment money, falsified reports, and a name that keeps resurfacing-one Jace was investigating before he died. The deeper Gabe goes, the more dangerous it becomes... and the harder it is to ignore the connection growing between him and Aiyana.

When a fire is set to silence them both, Gabe will risk everything to get her out alive. But the truth they uncover may burn hotter than the flames they escaped.

A story of grief, loyalty, found family, and the kind of love that rises from the ashes-even when the whole city wants it to burn.