A reluctant psychic is pulled into search-and-rescue missions and discovers the keys to her past.
A reluctant psychic pulled into search and rescue missions, a witch wound extending back centuries, and a mysterious tracker who can connect her to her destiny.
Shannon, the quiet and enigmatic wife of a Pacific Northwest fire chief, lives a life of deliberate invisibility. Though deeply in love with her husband Rick, she carries an unspoken burden: an uncanny sensitivity she has never been able to explain. She feels other people’s emotions like weather, senses danger before it arrives, and sometimes sees things that haven’t happened yet. Rick accepts her strangeness without understanding it, and Shannon hides the rest.
When Shannon accompanies her husband on a search‑and‑rescue call in the Pacific Northwest, she unexpectedly “sees” the missing man’s location with impossible clarity. Her vision draws the attention of Steppe, a solitary red‑haired tracker whose presence awakens memories Shannon has never lived—memories of fire, persecution, and a powerful, fated bond between them that stretches back centuries.
As Shannon’s psychic abilities intensify, the men in town respond with fear, hostility, and a primal recognition she has spent her life trying to avoid. Her marriage to Rick—the one person who has ever truly loved her—begins to strain under the weight of secrets she can no longer suppress. And Steppe’s reappearance forces her to confront a truth she has buried even from herself: she carries the ancestral memory of women burned as witches, and the power that once condemned her is rising again.
Set against the tidal inlets of the Pacific Northwest and the scorched landscapes of California wildfires, The Cold Fires is a gripping, high-stakes paranormal romantic suspense exploring the tension between safety and destiny, and the dangerous beauty of being fully seen.
Explicit scenes and discussions.
