Flames consumed and they devoured. They were voracious and they were wrathful, greedy and selfish. James had learned this lesson the hard way, leaving him to find himself a new resident in the quiet little town of Wrightsfield resting right in nowhere Indiana. A place meant to be a new beginning but with every passing day he feared was his end. James had grown used to the unexplainable. The inexplicable and the fantastical, maybe even the slightly magical. And starting a new high school while living with an estranged aunt, he was beginning to realize that maybe he wasn’t the only one. But even though it was all fresh and new, even though he’d had the pleasure of meeting Charlie Honeycutt, a boy with the warmest eyes he’d ever seen, even though he thought he could find some charm in the cornstalks and the temperamental weather, he discovered that he could never outrun them. The flames. And the people that they drew to him in seeking their warmth. Warning: This book contains some themes such as self harm, and violent/verbal/sexual