Fear of Flames (Crime Daily Podcast)

A twisty small-town psychological thriller with romantic suspense, buried family secrets, and shocking twists.

She writes thrillers for a living. Now she’s trapped inside one.

Michelle Holdcraft lives a quiet life in small-town Indiana. But under the pen name D. Valentine, she’s a bestselling thriller author known for writing dark secrets, murder, and shocking twists.

Then one trip changes everything.

When Michelle travels to Iron Falls, Massachusetts to visit her estranged father, she wakes to a gunshot, a house engulfed in flames, and her father dead on the floor.

Barefoot and alone, she escapes into the snowy woods—becoming the only witness to a murder someone will kill to keep hidden.

Especially the sheriff.

Desperate and out of options, Michelle accepts help from a mysterious stranger named Fletch, a dangerously attractive man who knows far too much about her life, her family, and the secrets surrounding her mother’s death.

Then she sees the tattoo on his back.
The same tattoo her father had.

Now Michelle is trapped in a deadly web of lies, corruption, and buried secrets where no one can be trusted—and falling for the wrong man could cost her everything.

Because in Iron Falls, some secrets were never meant to survive.

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