A serial arsonist has struck again, torching a New Orleans bar and killing fifteen people, including the wife of a Mafia crime boss. His next victim is a beautiful socialite set aflame in her Mercedes. Detective Teresa Vincent is assigned the case and she teams up with Fire Marshall Cort Gamble, the sexy creole who is tops on the list of New Orleans most eligible bachelors. Cort is rumored to have mob connections, but it's his connection to Terri that's too hot to forget-a past as sultry as a Louisiana summer night. Now they're shadowing a killer with an unfathomable motive of revenge: to finish off every woman Cort ever loved in a trial by fire.