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Sam Pulsifer is released from prison after accidentally burning down Emily Dickinson's home and begins to build a new life for himself, but when the homes of other New England writers are torched, Sam sets out to find the arsonist and clear his own name.

Julio Santana, an arsonist for hire, has made thousands of dollars working for the power players trying to force the gentrification of his Spanish Harlem neighborhood, but he finds his life in danger when he falls in love with a woman newly arrived on the block, and decides to give up his criminal career.

Spirited fifteen-year-old horse lover Rachel Selby is determined to become a veterinarian, despite the opposition of her rigid father, her proper mother, and the norms of Boston in 1872, while that city faces a serial arsonist and an epidemic spreading through its firehorse population.

Twelve-year-old Savannah wonders if her little brother Poco, who sleepwalks, is setting the mysterious fires that are leveling the fishermen's shacks on Shackleford Bank near their island home off the North Carolina coast.

Disheartened at being a newcomer in New England, Becky seeks solace in studying the marsh where she encounters a number of suspicious people, one of whom may be responsible for the town's rash of fires.

A highly respected California arson investigator has one serial criminal he cannot track down, until the arsonist finally leaves behind a shocking clue.

Reveals why Little River, Alabama, experienced racial violence in 1997, including the murder of a black man, an attack on a white storekeeper, and the burning of two black churches by white teens.

Teenage movie actor Horace "Ace" Hobart and his New York gang, the Purple Falcons, get involved in live theatre and an arson plot when they take summer jobs at a home for retired actors.