"In Dundas' assured hands, one man's search for answers makes for a lyrical, riveting meditation on memory."--EW
One
man knows the connection between two extraordinary acts of arson,
fifteen years apart, in his Montana hometown--if only he could remember
it.
Having lost much of his memory from a traumatic brain
injury sustained in Iraq, army veteran Matthew Rose is called back to
Montana after his father's death to settle his affairs, and hopefully to
settle the past as well. It's not only a blank to him, but a mystery.
Why as a teen did he suddenly become sullen and vacant, abandoning the
activities and people that had meant most to him? How did he, the son of
hippy activists, wind up enlisting in the first place?
Then on
his first night back, Matthew sees a house go up in flames, and it turns
out a local college student has died inside. And this event sparks a
memory of a different fire, an unsolved crime from long ago, a part of
Matthew's past that might lead to all the answers he's been searching
for. What he finds will connect the old fire and the new, a series of
long-unsolved mysteries, and a ruthless act of murder.