With his debut thriller Downtick, Wall Street veteran Regan C. Ashbaugh drew immediate critical comparisons to James Patterson and Thomas Harris. Now he returns to a place where greed burns bright...but the desire to kill is the hottest flame of all.

The top executives at the multibillion-dollar investment firm Morson-Grayhead are among the most powerful men on Wall Street. But all their wealth can't help when a killer descends on their quiet Westchester County mansions. Their wives are brutally murdered. Their homes are burned to the ground. And the growing panic inside Morson-Grayhead has sent shock waves ripping through the market.

It's up to Chief Fire Marshal Jake Ferguson, one of the shrewdest arson investigators in the tristate area, to bring down this homicidal pyromaniac. For Jake and his deputy, it's personal -- firefighters have given their lives. Diving headfirst into Wall Street's shark-infested waters, Ferguson is sure of just one thing -- there's precious little time before the killer strikes another match. And before he becomes the next victim.