Dragonfly Ashes

A barn burns at night in Cherry Creek, and a man bound inside is left to die in the fire. The killing frightens the small community, and the fear deepens when the arsonist leaves behind a calling card that belongs to a killer everyone believed was long dead.

That killer is the Dragonfly, who vanished from the local asylum decades ago. Over the years the disappearance has hardened into local legend, and the new fire pulls the old story back into the open.

Noelle McKenzie, a local author, is drawn in by the legend. She digs through the details of the past, looking for what really happened at the asylum. Captain Derek Dempsey works the present-day side of the case, hunting for physical evidence at the scene.

The two come at the problem from different directions, and neither has grasped how much is at stake. The arsonist is following a plan and carries a lit match. This is a crime mystery with an arson-driven threat, and if the fires are not stopped soon, there may be nothing left of Cherry Creek.