Heat of the Moment — Jessica Hall

Jessica Hall raises the stakes as she ignites a spark between two lovers torn between danger and desire....

The heat is on. A serial arsonist has struck again, torching a New Orleans bar and killing fifteen people--including the wife of a Mafia crime boss. The next victim is a beautiful socialite, set aflame in her Mercedes. Assigned to the case is Cajun detective Terri Vincent, and the first clue in her investigation is more personal than she could have imagined.

His name is Cort Gamble, a fire marshal rumored to have mob connections. But it's his connection to Terri that's too hot to forget--a past as sultry as a Louisiana summer night. Now they're shadowing a killer with a shocking means of revenge: to finish off every woman Cort ever loved in a trial by fire. For Terri, the only way to catch the killer is by pretending to reignite the passion that she and Cort once had. But this is no masquerade. And the closer she gets to Cort, the closer she gets to a madman who claims his victims in the heat of the moment....