BLUE SMOKE - Penguin USA

Reena Hale's destiny was shaped in the destructive-yet fascinatingly beautiful-fire that leveled her family's pizzeria when she was young.Now an arson investigator, she finds her strength and wits constantly tested-although sometimes the job seems like a snap compared to her love life.But she can't always blame the men.After all, a soot-caked woman barking orders and smelling meets Bo Goodnight, who seems different.He's been trying to find Reena ever since the long-ago night when he glimpsed her form afar.And now taht she's close enough to touch, he has no intention of letting go.Nor does the man who has begun to haunt Reena's life-with tauting phone calls and string of horrifying crimes.And as Reena tries desperately to trace the origins-of the calls, the fires, the harted aimed in her direction-she will step into the worst inferno she has ever faced...