WHEN THE SMOKE CLEARS, Lynette Eason

            Alexia
Allen is on enforced leave from her firefighter job in Washington when she
receives a phone call from a high school friend inviting her to their tenth
reunion. Impulsively, she decides to return to the town she fled on the day
after graduation ten years ago.

            Her
homecoming starts off with an almost-literal bang when she discovers a murdered
classmate in her