<p><em></em><strong><em>If you play with fire ... you get murder.<br></em></strong><br>When a series of arsons targets Vermont antiques stores, Detective Adam Dutton and con-woman Beverly Laborde worry a shop owned by their friend might be next. But the stakes take an even deeper and uglier turn after a body is found inside one of the burned buildings. Was it an accident, suicide ... or murder?<br><br>Adam and Beverly hoped they''d seen the last of a crime syndicate operating under the Northern Antiquities League-and that they could finally put those dark memories behind them. But do the arsons signal the last gasp of the NAL? Or is a new mob threat rising from the ashes?<br><br>With the help of the mysterious Mr. X, Adam and Beverly race to get to the bottom of the fires before any more lives are lost ... including their own.</p>