'Any other time,' Ash Porter wrote Luke Adams. 'Things are out of hand here on the mountain, with a firebug loose and a loaded gun inside every cabin door.' Ten years away from the Sierras, Luke ignored Ash's warnings and those of his estranged daughter, Linden. Ash, now wheelchair-bound after a near fatal accident, had raised Luke, and Luke was going home. In Luke's first twenty-four hours, a boy died in a flaming garage, another cabin was bombed, and Sheriff Dodge, Luke's high school enemy, identified Luke's car as having been seen leaving the inferno.