Rio shoves Maya behind a dumpster. Bullets ricochet. A gas main ruptures. Flames erupt between them and the shooters.
Maya looks at Rio. “You light fires. I put them out. But right now, we run.”
She confronts Rio in an alley. Before she can arrest him, a black SUV screeches around the corner. Silas’s men open fire—they’ve been watching both of them. Someone wants the arsonist dead and the investigator silenced.
Some cities are built on rock and roll. This one will be built on ash.