What We'll Burn Last BY Heather Chavez

From the acclaimed author of Before She Finds Me comes a "nuanced story of fiery secrets" (The Washington Post) and a "beautifully written, cinematic thriller" (Ashley Winstead) about two entangled families in a California neighborhood racing to uncover the truth about a missing teen as a wildfire rages nearby.

Three women. When Leyna Clarke was twelve, her older sister Grace disappeared with her boyfriend, Adam Duran, from their Sierra Nevada foothills home. Sixteen years later, a stranger who resembles Grace appears at Leyna’s restaurant and vanishes just as mysteriously. As the media frenzy intensifies and Leyna is revealed to have been one of the last people to see the young woman, her childhood crush Dominic, Adam’s brother, implores her to return home.

Three secrets. Leyna’s mother, Meredith, still clings to their old home and maintains that Grace and Adam left willingly, despite evidence suggesting otherwise. Down the street, Olivia, Adam and Dominic’s mother, remains in the neighborhood, waiting for her son’s return and determined to expose what Meredith and Leyna have been hiding. As the wildfire intensifies, so do tensions, revealing buried secrets and dangerous intentions.

The forest holds its own mysteries, and as the blaze encroaches, old grievances and hidden truths threaten to erupt. Amidst the chaos, the question remains: who can be trusted, and who knows what truly happened on that fateful night? In this gripping thriller, the past and present collide, revealing that some secrets are too volatile to stay hidden.