When a fire destroys Ashton's newest restaurant and puts its owner in a coma, Sheriff Ben Caldwell faces a case that cuts close to home — the victim is someone from his past he's spent twenty years avoiding. In a town of eleven hundred people where everyone's a witness and nobody's a stranger, Ben must untangle old grudges, quiet loyalties, and the generosity of a man who's a little too eager to help. Some fires start long before the match is struck.