Deep in the Colorado Rocky Mountains unspeakable evil rears its ugly head of destruction. Fire and death are at its core. Nathan Braswell leaves his home in west Texas for a much needed extended vacation in the Colorado Rocky Mountains and unwittingly becomes embroiled in events involving murders, attempted witness assassinations, fires and explosions, illegal drug trafficking, and a race to find the evil behind it all. After two weeks of trail riding and hiking with three lifelong friends, Nathan begins another two weeks venturing about the mountains on his own. While hiking in one of the national forests, he and Rachel Greystone, a young pregnant widow, by happenstance witness a double murder at a distance; she with her video camera, and he with his binoculars. While being kept in a witness protection safe-house, Nathan and Rachel have to flee for their lives when the house is attacked and the Sheriff's deputy on duty is killed. After working their way through the forest and canyons to a friend's home, Nathan contacts his uncle, Collin O'Quinn, a Senior Special Agent of the FBI's Paranormal Profiling, Identification, and Investigative Division. Certain actions by the Sherriff's personnel cause Nathan to strongly believe someone in the Sheriff's department is in on the murders and the safe house attack. Rachel is sent to a safe location, while Nathan returns to Cedar Cross with the FBI to do his duty as a witness. After abandoning his "kill-for-pay" operation in Chicago, Kane Baker carefully re-engineered his life. In recent years he has lived a double existence in Colorado; one as a county official and the other as the mastermind of an illegal pharmaceutical drug business. One disturbing facet of Kane's psyche is he worships everything about fire. It makes him euphoric, especially if it is burning away skin, hair, muscles, internal organs and bone - consuming his victims until nothing but ashes remain. Kane is determined to get rid of one of his