?Full-bodied and dynamic characters carry this one along a mystery, tying a brutal past with a bloody present that will keep you guessing right up to the finale.? - Unnerving Magazine on Book 1 in the series. Raven Burns owes her life to the kind souls who looked after her while her father, unbeknownst to them, sowed a path of blood and bodies from California to Louisiana as one of the most notorious serial killers ever known, Floyd ?Fire? Burns. When Raven was a girl, Floyd brutally murdered one of those kind souls, Miss Ruth Jefferson, when the woman made the fatal decision to open the door to him on a pitch-black 4th of July night. As Raven learned of her father's crimes, she vowed to do everything in her power to put men like him away. Decades later Raven's hunt for a serial killer terrorizing the town leads her right back to that 4th of July night, and a memory that will make her question how much Floyd's evil has settled in her bones. AUTHOR: Based in California, Faye is the author of three novels and several short stories as well as a little poetry sprinkled here and there in various literary journals. She has a master's in English literature and a deep curiosity in all things noir-especially stories populated with people from diverse ethnic backgrounds.