Katie Bonner, the reluctant manager of Artisans Alley in the quaint shopping district of Victoria Square, is becoming hot and bothered as summer ushers in a heat wave. At the height of the heat, a tragic fire strikes Victoria Square. Wood U, a small store selling wooden gifts and small furniture, is destroyed. But the fire may just be a smoke screen ... for murder. A body is found among the charred wreckage, and the victim didn't die from smoke inhalation-- he was shot. Now Katie is determined to smoke out a coldhearted killer ...