The rooms above were still filled with light; it was like bursting up from underwater, and I gulped the light as though it were air, dazzled and eyes watering as I rushed to bolt the shutters in the boxroom and Amy McCallum’s room. I didn’t know where Amy and her sons were; I could only be grateful that they weren’t in the house at the moment.
There's only 250-ish pages left in the book. This seems like it could be 1) a false call for the Ridge's burning, or 2) the actual burning. They're locking themselves in!! It's very likely Brown could burn the place down!
