Britt Shelley is a young, ambitious television news reporter in Charleston SC. She is a rising star. But she goes to a party hosted by her old friend and occasional lover, Jay Burgess, has a drink and wakes up the next morning, naked, in bed with Jay. A very dead Jay. Jay, who had told her that he was dying and had something to tell her. Something big. Something that would make her a star at the television station. But instead of a juicy story she has become a suspect in a very suspicious death.
Things only get worse from there. She is kidnapped by Raley Gannon, a fire investigator who, it turns out, had had a similar experience – having a drink and waking up in bed with a dead woman. What was going on? Soon attempts would be made to kill both of them. They needed to hide and needed to team up to find out why their lives were being threatened.
It all had something to do with a fire at an old police station 5 years earlier. But what was the connection? Unraveling that secret – and following the pair through a series of harrowing adventures – is what this book is about.
The solution was not the most surprising I have ever encountered and some of the plot stretched my credulity. But not bad.
6 out of 10.