This Red Fire

by Nicolina Torres

One spring evening, all residents in the rural town of Calliope, Nebraska are murdered. There are no witnesses and there were no calls for help.

The nearest town is 30 miles away and Sheriff Evelyn Hartley has to bear the burden of the case. Hartley, a single mother who lost her child months before in a freak accident, becomes obsessed with finding the only two missing citizens of Calliope, a pair of young siblings. When the FBI pushes her out and talk of terrorism looms, Sheriff Hartley has to work on her own to make sure it doesn’t happen again, somewhere else.

221 pages, Kindle Edition

Published August 24, 2016

About the author

Nikki Torres was a manager for Barnes & Noble for 15 years, in seven stores, and represented B&N on Channel 2’s Living Dayton Show for two years. Nikki was a D.J. for the radio show, The Absolute World with Nicolina, on 88.3FM WAIF, for two seasons. She is now Chief Operations Officer at LexTotus. She’s a volunteer for Ms. JD and a member of the team who won FAMU Law School’s 2016 Spirit of Service Award for promoting diversity in the legal profession.

Nikki is first generation American on her father’s side. Her paternal family lives in Santiago, Chile. She is third generation American on her mother’s side and they are French-Canadian.

When not working, Nikki is building websites and writing. She is the author of The American Dead Series and is currently wrapping up her novel, This Red Fire. She prefers to live in the country and is a new aunt to a potential bookworm.