Waking up in bed next to famed Charleston Police Department detective Jay Burgess, TV reporter Britt Shelley can't remember how she got there... or how handsome Jay died - because Burgess is dead. Five years ago, he witnessed a terrible fire that killed seven lives. There could have been many more victims if not for Jay's bravery. His childhood friend, Reilly Gannon, was entrusted with investigating the reasons for what happened, but he did not have time to finish what he started: the ill-fated night ended with the collapse of his career, the betrayal of his beloved woman and destroyed his usual life. There is a lot of strange and incomprehensible in all these events. Reilly and Britt try to understand what really happened, but the closer they get to the truth, the more danger they put themselves in. Now they need not only to find out the truth, but also to save their lives...