About Diversionary Fires
**Logline:**
Tara Atwater, holding the winning numbers to a record-breaking lottery, must navigate the deadly consequences of a murder in her kitchen and the secrets of diversionary fires learned in her youth.
**Book Blurb:**
From the award-winning author of ‘The Cool Part of His Pillow’… Tara Atwater holds the right combination of numbers to the record-breaking Ohio state lottery. But what to do about the dead man, stabbed to death, on the kitchen floor? It was, after all, his ticket. A diversionary fire might be the answer. Left in her grandparents’ care as her reckless mother worked the carnival circuit, Tara learned about sleight-of-hand flame, purposely created to distract from something far bigger, at age nine. As decades flicker past, from the 1970s until the beginning of a global pandemic, Tara’s life becomes a series of diversions and revelations, each more incendiary than the last.
