Madeline Dare trades New Yorks gritty streets for the tree-lined avenues of Boulder, Colorado, when her husband Dean lands a promising job. Madeline, now a full-time homemaker and mother to beautiful toddler twin girls, has achieved everything she thought she always wanted, but with her husband constantly on the road, shes fighting a losing battle against the Betty Friedan riptide of suburban/maternal exhaustion, angst, and sheer loneliness. A new freelance newspaper gig helps her get her mojo back, but Boulder isnt nearly as tranquil as it seems: theres a serial arsonist at large in the city. As Madeline closes in on the culprit, the fires turn deadlyand the stakes tragically personal. Shell need every ounce of strength and courage she has to keep the flames from reaching her own doorstep, threatening all she holds most dear.