In the latest installment of the chronicles of Carding, Vermont, Edie Wolfe comes to appreciate the truth in one of her father's favorite sayings: "Old sins cast long shadows." As the green of a Vermont summer deepens and the cool waters of Half Moon Lake beckon, Edie and her friends uncover more questions than answers when they start digging into the town's past. Why did Carding's most famous son, the renowned painter Joseph Stillman Croft, leave town so suddenly in 1929? Why does his strange will mandate that his masterpiece, Thieves of Fire, always hang on the wall of the Carding Academy of Traditional Arts? As she starts to probe Croft's secret life, Edie comes face to face with her own past when the father of her children, the man she knew in Paris as Jean-Paul Vallone, turns out to be very much alive and very interested in the comings and goings of her little town in Vermont. Then there's the business of Gideon Brown's resurrection tour, the problem of unpaid taxes, and a forgotten woman who holds the key to Carding's future. Edie would like you to believe that she's as calm on the inside as she appears on the outside. But with so much change swirling through the streets of the town at the heart of the Corvus River Valley, Edie Wolfe's renowned wisdom and foresight are about to be challenged. If you're in the mood for the kind of story that keeps you reading late into the night because you just have to know what happens next, then you're in for a treat in Thieves of Fire, a tale about the bonds of love and the fundamental goodness of human beings.