A house burns on the stark Kansas horizon...Its flames make a New York businessman abandon the back road in hopes of helping, in hopes of being the hero instead of the villain for once...His nerve is immediately tested as he witnesses a man run into the inferno. As the New Yorker risks all to save the stranger, his life becomes forever embroiled in both a madman's deadly game of fire and revenge, and a soldier's fight not only to save his family but to save his own soul...The New Yorker is thirty-two-year-old Matthew Archer. He is a hard man to like, a harder man still to love. Few in the world make an effort at either.The soldier is twenty-six-year-old Cane Summerfield. He is a hero, a man who gave up his independence to defend his country.The men are two strong, fierce personalities, from backgrounds as different as heaven and hell. They should never have met, let alone fallen in love... but theirs is a story of Fate riding in on the coattails of sin.Theirs is a story borne of fire...