From the incomparable Nora Roberts, Blue Smoke is a tale of gut-level fear, human triumph, and the bonds that carry us through our darkest times.

The blaze that night at her family's pizzeria changed young Reena Hale's life. For as Reena beheld the fire's brutal beauty and destructive power, her destiny began to take shape. She would understand and master its terrible force - and one day become an investigator herself. But she is not the only one fascinated by the flames. . . .

When Reena joins the arson unit, her strength and wits are constantly tested. Then she meets Bo Goodnight, who seems different. He's been trying to find Reena for years, and now that she is close enough to touch, he has no intention of letting go. Nor does the man who has begun to haunt Reena's life - with taunting phone calls and a string of horrifying crimes. And as Reena tries desperately to trace the origins - of the calls, the fires, the hatred aimed in her direction - she will step into the worst inferno she has ever faced.

Nora Roberts is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of more than one hundred novels, including eighteen books in the #1 New York Times bestselling In Death series, written under the pen name J. D. Robb. She has been given the Romance Writers of America Lifetime Achievement Award and has been inducted into their Hall of Fame. Roberts' work has been optioned and made into films, excerpted in national magazines and translated in over twenty-five countries. Nora Roberts lives in Keedysville, Maryland.