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A boy who does odd jobs in an apartment house becomes involved with a gang of arsonists employed by the building's owner, who plans to destroy it in order to collect the insurance.

Arson investigator Ryan Piasecki was a man who got the job done no matter what the obstacle-- or how beautiful she was. Ambitious executive Natalie Fletcher's new business was going up in smoke, literally, and she needed Ryan's help to catch the arsonist. But if he wasn't careful, the sparks flying between him and this hothouse rose would erupt into a five-alarm blaze-- and they'd both be engulfed by the Night Smoke.

Jessica Wakefield can't believe that her older brother has fallen for her best friend Lila Fowler. Her twin, Elizabeth, agrees that Steven is making a big mistake, so they devise a plan to snuff out the romance. Meanwhile, an arsonist is still at large, and is preparing to strike Sweet Valley High.

Backdraft: Two feuding firefighter brothers must set aside their personal differences in order to survive the burning infernos set by a manaical arsonist. Backdraft 2: When fire investigator Sean McCaffrey is assigned to investigate a deadly fire, he and partner Maggie soon realize that they are dealing with something much more than a routine fire. The clues they discover lead them down a treacherous path of arson, murder, and international terrorism....

Having lost much of his memory from a traumatic brain injury sustained in Iraq, army veteran Matthew Rose is called back to Montana after his father's death to settle his affairs, and hopefully to settle the past as well. It's not only a blank to him, but a mystery. Why as a teen did he suddenly become sullen and vacant, abandoning the activities and people that had meant most to him? How did he, the son of hippy activists, wind up enlisting in the...

"The Witnesses is the third novel in Amish novelist, Linda Byler's current series, "Lancaster Burning." Byler takes readers inside the home of the leader of the local Amish community, Davey Beiler, who finds himself at the center of mounting fear and controversy. Fires have destroyed two more nearby Amish barns, and many of the farmers are ready to ask for police protection, an unheard of action. Beiler counsels against this, but then his beloved...

Ever since Jessop Norton came into her life he has been a thorn in the side of Sofia Parker and her family. Norton is a city councilman in Sofia's hometown of Cabot Falls, Vermont, a small business owner and the Parkers' next door neighbor. First the municipal curmudgeon seeks a court injunction to stop their sons, Luke and Matthew, from building a tree house in their backyard but then things really get ugly. A fire during the town's Founder's Day...

Kit Blume loses her home to arson, suffering afterwards from disturbing flashbacks and nightmares that involve a killer with a gun. Determined to discover the truth about her lost childhood, Kit joins Harvey Trent in his investigation of the night the Lakeshore Inn burned in northern Minnesota. The harder Kit and Harvey press to uncover the facts, the more determined someone becomes to silence them.