First In Line

Some fires can’t be contained. Some obsessions never burn out.

Firefighter Marcus McCabe knows fire. He knows its hunger, its unpredictability, the way it takes without mercy. But nothing has ever felt as dangerous as the man watching him from the flames.

When a series of arsons turns personal, Marcus is forced to work with James Reynolds, a...

I didn’t know his name yet, but I knew the sound he made when he came.

Michael McCabe doesn’t take vacations—especially not after nearly losing his brother to a psychotic arsonist. But when an explosion rocks his enforced getaway in Tahiti, the off-duty SWAT officer is pulled into a crisis that smells like more than bad luck.

Alex Kessler came to...

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He talks people off the ledge, but when the danger turns personal, he’s forced to face the one thing he’s never been able to handle—himself.

As a crisis counselor, Miles McCabe is calm under pressure, fluent in other people’s trauma, and pretty damn good at pretending he has his own life together.

Sarcasm helps. But when a chilling voicemail lands...