At ten years old, Ashley Graves crawled out of a burning house with smoke in her lungs, her mother dead behind her, and a battered stuffed unicorn named Lucy clutched in her arms.
Six years later, the King family has given Ashley a home, a sister in Lorie, and the fragile promise of an ordinary life. But when a mysterious stranger appears at her mother's grave, questions everyone thought were buried begin rising to the surface.
Beyond Ardmore, Ashley's vanished father, Damien Graves, is tearing through a criminal organization known as The Dawn. He is searching for the truth about the night everything burned-and leaving a trail of violence behind him. As Damien's path draws closer to Ashley's, she and Lorie are forced to confront buried secrets, devastating loss, and the terrible price of answers.
Some wounds never disappear. Some families are chosen. And sometimes surviving the fire is only the beginning.