The Second Fire Killed Her Sister’s Ghost

Summary

The night before my wedding, Owen’s “girl friend”—Anya—burnt down my house while I was gone.

She’d been hosting a backyard barbecue, tossing the unextinguished charcoal embers haphazardly across the new wooden deck.

The raging fire that erupted took the lives of the four bridesmaids sleeping upstairs.

I drove like a maniac to get there, only to collide with the scene: firefighters carrying four charred bodies out on stretchers.

I collapsed, sobbing, unable to tell which was my sister, Lily, and which were my best friends, Zara, Brooke, and Leah.