The Burning Rooms

A serial arsonist with a burning desire

In a country town, a serial arsonist is burning homes down. Their signature move is to place an identical model house on the front porch before they start the blaze. But no one is there to witness this in the silence of each dark winter night.

Javier and Nicole Garcia are celebrating their anniversary at a restaurant when they receive a chilling phone call – a recorded children's verse warning them their house is on fire and their children gone. They race home to an inferno and missing children, unaware the blaze is about to take their lives.

Detective Jace Franco is first on the scene and is confronted by something that will haunt him – a matching model house on the front porch. He sighted exactly the same thing thirteen years ago, at a house fire that claimed the lives of a whole family.

He’s now become certain that a serial arsonist is at work, but no one else is convinced. Only one other person saw what he did at that fire of thirteen years ago - Detective Kate Wakeland. But can he tempt her away from her role with the federal police to work with him on this case?

(This story happens 3 ½ years after the last Tallman's Valley book, The Silent Town..)