Sear And Siege

"The safest place in a fire is the ground that's already burned. He knew this. He stood on it anyway, waiting for me to walk through the flames."

Ruthless real estate litigator Odessa Rowe arrives at her late father's isolated Malibu estate to evict its mysterious caretaker, former Marine sniper Knox Blackwell. But when a massive wildfire cuts off the only escape route and destroys the cell tower, their bitter standoff turns into a fight for survival. Trapped together on a shrinking strip of beach as temperatures soar, they are forced into a brutal alliance. As embers rain down from the hills, Odessa uncovers dark secrets in her father's locked letters, realizing Knox's hyper-efficient protection might be a dangerous cage she never wants to leave.