In this final book in the Quinton Zane trilogy that began with When Have All the Girls Gone, then Promise Not to Tell and finally this book Quinton Zane was a cult leader who made a great deal of money off of the women in his cult, but they hid the money from him. He torched the compound and cop Anton Salinas managed to save the children but wasn't able to save the mothers. All of the children were able to find homes with family members except three boys, Max Cutler, Cabot Sutter, and Jack Lancaster. Max, Cabot, and Anton opened a PI business while Jack went from the academic world to writing books on criminality to working cold cases that involve fire.
Jack has a way of lucid dreaming that takes him into a trance that helps him solve his cases. This lucid dreaming takes him into a maze of fire. He's tried to study them scientifically but has been told that he needs psychiatric help. Instead, he goes to the new mediative specialist, Winter Meadows, in Eclipse Bay, Oregan where he has just moved. She helps him to see that using fire doesn't help him and that he should change his dreamscape to ice and create a world of his own rather than a maze. It immediately helps him. She also has him create a safe word that will help him escape from his dreamscape at any time.
Sparks fly between the two and once he is no longer a client the two agree to see each other and share a searing kiss. That night Kendall Mosely, a man from her past who had been stalking her at her old job and was the reason she left her old job at a spa, showed up in her cottage to kill her. But Winter is a hypnotist and she had placed more than one hypnotic suggestion in his mind when she left. One was that he would become obsessed with running rather than people and the other was that if he saw her again and she said the words Winnie the Pooh he would freeze. When he froze she was able to get the knife out of his hand and was beginning to question him about how he had found her which was through someone online when lightning struck and broke him out of the trance. Luckily Jack showed up just then to help her with Mosely and he attacked him when he pulled a gun on her, causing him to hit the coffee table and knock Mosely out.
Jack believes that Zane is behind this and he's right. Zane has been working on taking over his biological father's company. His dad got some woman pregnant years ago and she sold him for a fix to a couple. Now he knows who his real father is and he wants revenge and to make money of course. Zane knows that he needs to get rid of Jack who is his biggest threat in finding him. He hires two mercenaries, Victoria Sloan and Devlin Knight to help him with his project and to clean up after him after he winds up Mosley online. Mosely was supposed to kill Winter then go and kill Jack her supposed lover. They believe he is going to offer them money and power so that they can retire.
This is a fitting end to the trilogy. However, you don't have to have read the other three books to read and enjoy this book, though I highly recommend it so you can get the full scope of Zane's treachery from the other books. I love the characters of Jack and Winter. They are very mild mannered and most odd balled of the group which makes them lovable as people. The story is interesting too. I really liked this book a lot. I give it five out of five stars.
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