Chapter 1 of a heart-pounding thriller where regular folks encounter deadly threats and must battle to stay alive.

A Texan arrives in Pleasant Valley to bring the man who killed his brother to justice. The rest of the town wants to lynch the killer. The writing is highly stylized.

A fire-obsessed man summons a burning spirit that terrorizes a little town. When fire-starters attack and the military takes control, his sister battles to rescue him from the ghostly woman who controls his body. He vanishes, leaving only a dancing flame behind as the town's spooky unsolved case.