Ot avtora mirovogo bestsellera «Chetvertoe krylo». Tretya kniga tsikla Rebekki Yarros o goryachih pozharnyh.
Inogda lozh dolzhna sgoret dotla, chtoby iz pepla rodilas istina.
Harper ne planirovala stanovitsya opekunom dvuh osirotevshih malchikov. No kogda beda razrushaet chuzhuyu semyu, ona ne mozhet ostatsya v storone. Radi detey Harper gotova na vse - dazhe poselitsya v dome Noksa, luchshego druga svoego brata i muzhchiny, kotorogo ona polyubila esche v detstve.
Noks znaet, chto znachit perezhit poteryu. Kogda-to pozhar navsegda izmenil ego zhizn, ostaviv posle sebya chuvstva, o kotoryh prosche bylo zabyt. No teper, kogda Harper i deti okazyvayutsya pod ego kryshey, Noks predlagaet nevozmozhnoe: stat dlya malchikov semey.
To, chto nachinalos kak vremennoe reshenie, bystro stanovitsya opasno lichnym. Pod odnoy kryshey ozhivayut starye rany, vozvraschaetsya prityazhenie, kotoromu oni slishkom dolgo soprotivlyalis, a fiktivnaya blizost perestaet byt igroy.
I kogda obstoyatelstva trebuyut esche bolee riskovannogo shaga, Harper i Noksu pridetsya reshit, gotovy li oni doveritsya drug drugu po-nastoyaschemu.
