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Burn Pattern
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RomanceGeneral GLBTQIA Fiction
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Publisher: Independently Published
Pages: 510
Weight: 1.49
Height: 1.03 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
A firefighter who reads fire like a language. A forensic investigator who trusts evidence more than comfort. A city where every burn scar hides another crime.
When firefighter Eli Mercer enters a burning Blackmoor townhouse, he senses the scene is wrong. The fire has moved too fast, stalled too cleanly, and left behind a clue no one should have missed: a half-charred metal tag that points to Harbor Response Environmental, a restoration company with access to damaged properties all over the city.
Forensic investigator Adrian Vale confirms Eli's instincts. The fire was not simply set. It was staged. And when another Harbor-linked site burns with a dead man inside, the investigation widens into a network of shell companies, title coercion, code records, missing witnesses, and redevelopment money moving through the city's old power structure.
The case would be dangerous enough if Eli and Adrian were only professionals crossing paths at fire scenes. But they are also roommates, caught in a charged silence that has been building for months. As threats move from anonymous calls to their apartment door, the line between evidence and intimacy becomes impossible to maintain.
To expose the people using fire as a cleanup tool, Eli and Adrian must follow the burn patterns through Denholm Asset Recovery, Blackline Redevelopment, Cold House Nine, Saint Jude's hidden records, and a Vale family legacy Adrian has spent his life trying not to inherit.
But the closer they get to the truth, the more personal the fires become.
Burn Pattern blends romantic suspense, arson investigation, civic conspiracy, found-family grit, and slow-burn queer romance in a high-heat thriller about what survives after powerful people try to turn memory into ash.
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