







Some fires leave more than ashes.
Bastien Durand has spent a century telling hauntings from bad wiring. So when fires start breaking out across New Orleans and witnesses swear the flames move wrong, he walks the scene and rules it out. No curse. No spirit. Just a very human arsonist.
Then Delphine breathes the smoke and collapses.
When she wakes, she remembers burning — a hundred years ago, in his arms.
Every fire after that opens another door. A home they built. A proposal he never got to make. And beneath it all, the truth Bastien has hidden since the day they met: he was never cast out of Heaven.
He fell on purpose. For her.
Now he has to choose — let her remember everything, or protect her from the one memory that could break her.
Some promises survive even death.


Nurse practitioner, Dana Kerrigan, finds her steady and comfortably predictable life suddenly turned upside down as the result of a family emergency. With no choice but to take a leave from work, she has to hustle to keep Silence’s favorite pub running and her parents looked after. When heartbreak brings with it an unexpected opportunity to realize a long-held dream, it presents a new set of problems. One that involves murder, and the man sent to investigate.
As a recent transplant to Silence, sheriff’s detective, Rick Althof, was aiming for less stress and more solitude. Instead, he finds himself frequently drawn to The Kerrigan, a popular pub in town, to enjoy a meal, a beer, and—if lucky—a friendly chat with the owner’s pretty daughter. Still bearing the invisible scars of past mistakes, he’s determined to keep things friendly, despite a growing attraction. However, his resolve is put to the test when she lands in the middle of an elaborate development scheme involving bribery, blackmail, and even murder.