Searing Circumstances

Sugar Creek's annual 4th of July celebration should be a time for community and fireworks, but this year, it ends with a bang of a different kind.

When City Councilman Terrence Dixon is found dead at his own lavish party, the neighborhood is thrown into chaos.  Dixon's controversial votes and grand plans to revitalize Sugar Creek made him more enemies than friends.

When the suspects include personal friends, Eugeena Patterson-Jones and her husband Amos find themselves reluctantly drawn into a pool of simmering resentments. The murderer could very well be someone they know well, or thought they knew.