In Timber Creek, the hot, dry Santa Ana winds are blowing. But more than just the threat of wildfire endangers the tiny mountain community. And as a member of a mountain search and rescue team, Gracie Kinkaid will come face to face with that peril…
Gracie and her rescue team are searching along the highway in the middle of the blisteringly hot Mojave Desert when they make a grisly discovery—a trash bag containing human body parts. Not long after, Gracie's growing friendship with an eleven-year-old runaway draws her unwittingly into the secretive, hate-filled world of the boy's family—a group of gun-toting extremists. As a wildfire roars into Timber Creek, Gracie finds herself caught up in an explosive plot that, unless she stops it, will destroy countless innocent lives.