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Struggling with a series of frustrations including the cancellation of the Fourth of July fireworks display and false accusations by a reporter, Blacklin County sheriff Dan Rhodes begins to wonder at the reporter's hidden agenda in the wake of a murder and arson case.
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There hasn't been any rain to speak of in Sheriff Dan Rhodes's Texas county for nearly two months. Rhodes does see a good side, though: He hasn't had to mow his yard in weeks, and the coming Fourth of July fireworks have been canceled. Having nearly been blown up twice, he's soured on explosions. Besides one spark in the wrong place in this weather, and the whole county could go up in flames.Although the county survives, a wooden shack does burn to the ground with the owner's body inside - and not even a sparkler was anywhere near the premises. Soon after, Rhodes witnesses a second conflagration at firsthand from the refuge of his car as an angry woman shoots her gun into the stock of a fireworks stand.
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