Fire blazes around Sonya Brighton when she returns to Linnville, Kansas, to visit her Uncle Alex and to settle her father's estate. First the Brighton Warehouse, in which Sonya is a partner, burns. When Sonya begins to investigate, fire rages again, this time to cover up an attempted murder. To Sonya's dismay her uncle has become estranged from his stepson, handsome Dan Rathmell. Dan's mother has recently died, and Alex, stricken with illness, has remarried in haste to an opportunist, who moves in her sister and brother-in-law. This frightening trio has taken over the Rathmell house. As Sonya attempts to clear herself and Uncle Alex from charges of arson, she finds herself encircled by flames of deceit.