New York City fire investigator and single mom Georgia Skeehan sifts through the ashes and uncovers the many layers of betrayal in this second thriller of the critically acclaimed series. Two doctors are killed in separate, fiery infernos that both show signs of "flashover"-the vicious and overwhelming combustion of a room and its contents by simultaneous ignition. Although the fires appear to be accidental, Georgia is troubled by a tenuous link between...

Few women make it into the macho ranks of New York City's Bravest-the FDNY-where brute force and brotherhood are the only respected currencies. Fewer still get promoted to arson investigator. But New York City firefighter Georgia Skeehan is no ordinary woman. A single mom and motorcycle enthusiast, she's tormented by a fatal mistake and her own fears that she can never live up to her hero firefighter dad, who died in the line of duty. When a Manhattan...

Introduces the first known female firefighter, Molly Williams, an African American cook for New York City's Fire Company 11, who one winter day in 1818 with many volunteers sick with influenza jumped into action to stop a house fire.