This time the weapon isn't gasoline — it's a map.
Roan Holbrook reads burns for a living, but the fires scattered across the county don't read like bad luck anymore. Lay them out in order and they stop looking random and start looking drawn — a line burned clean across the map, house by house, like someone clearing a path.
Mara Ellison reads money, and she's the one who sees it first: the fires aren't a spree. They're a route. Deliberate. Cleared. And the man they pull from a locked cellar in the newest burn wasn't a bystander — he was a courier who'd been told to be anywhere but there that night.
Not a spree. A corridor.
She maps the burns as a route and proves the thing that changes everything — this isn't a crime, it's a system. And Roan, reading the newest fire, reads it back to her in her language, in money, in the cold arithmetic of who profits — and something she thought she'd buried reignites.
Then the friendliest man in the room hands them the name they've been chasing, warm and easy, and they say thank you and walk out. Neither of them notices the letterhead under his fingers — the seal of the one agency they were about to run to for help.
Pattern Recognition is Episode 3 of Point of Origin, a high-velocity K-9 romantic-suspense serial — each episode a complete case you can finish in a sitting, each one turning the bigger fire a notch hotter. Two pros, maximum tension, closed door. For readers of Lori Ryan and Cristin Harber.
A new episode every week. Start the burn.
Genre: Romantic Suspense
Roan Holbrook reads burns for a living, but the fires scattered across the county don't read like bad luck anymore. Lay them out in order and they stop looking random and start looking drawn — a line burned clean across the map, house by house, like someone clearing a path.
Mara Ellison reads money, and she's the one who sees it first: the fires aren't a spree. They're a route. Deliberate. Cleared. And the man they pull from a locked cellar in the newest burn wasn't a bystander — he was a courier who'd been told to be anywhere but there that night.
Not a spree. A corridor.
She maps the burns as a route and proves the thing that changes everything — this isn't a crime, it's a system. And Roan, reading the newest fire, reads it back to her in her language, in money, in the cold arithmetic of who profits — and something she thought she'd buried reignites.
Then the friendliest man in the room hands them the name they've been chasing, warm and easy, and they say thank you and walk out. Neither of them notices the letterhead under his fingers — the seal of the one agency they were about to run to for help.
Pattern Recognition is Episode 3 of Point of Origin, a high-velocity K-9 romantic-suspense serial — each episode a complete case you can finish in a sitting, each one turning the bigger fire a notch hotter. Two pros, maximum tension, closed door. For readers of Lori Ryan and Cristin Harber.
A new episode every week. Start the burn.
Genre: Romantic Suspense