Through The Fire

by Taisha DeMay

It’s a funny thing about your past, it always finds a way of catching up with you. Baltimore Arson investigator Micah Pierce resigns from his job determined to leave town along with the nightmares of the disastrous Pyro investigation. Deep down he knew it would only be a matter of time before Pyro surfaced again....Micah tries to find comfortable in the small town of West Lake where meets the gorgeous Raleigh Mashburn who is the owner of the local bakery. The fires start up again and Micah Pierce is quickly thrust back into the public eye and forced to face his demons once again when Raleigh's bakery becomes the arsonists latest casualty. Can Micah finally put a stop to Pyro's reign of terror and save the woman he loves or will this be the one case that finally pushes him over the edge?

184 pages, Kindle Edition

First published September 23, 2015

Reviews

[Shatika Turner · Rating 3 out of 5]

Good storyline

The story, itself, was refreshing. The cat and mouse game between Pyro and Micah made for a great read. My only complaint is the lack of editing that tend to mess up the flow of the story.

[Bill Lindau · Rating 5 out of 5]

Taisha DeMay's second novel is a crime story with a hero, a heroine and a villain, but it is far from formulaic and the three main characters are far from stock characters. They are well fleshed out, and you can see into their heads, what motivates them. The story opens in Baltimore, when a notorious serial arsonist fakes his own death, in a horrific way. Convinced Pyro (the arsonist) is really gone, the fire investigator resigns to live in a small town and open a motorcycle repair shop. The whole story is about this cat-and-mouse game that Pyro plays with Micah, the investigator who has been chasing him for years. Much later, Micah meets a gorgeous businesswoman named Raleigh, whose bakery becomes one of Pyro's targets. So once again, the chase resumes.
This edition has one flaw; it is full of typos. Also, as the story shifts from one point of view to another, the reader has to pay close attention to the transitions, among Pyro, Micah and Raleigh. But even with all this, it's a must-read, a page turner that you're tempted to read in a single sitting. What a treat it is to read something like this!