Fire in my Head: No One Can Erase Your Past

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Jens Keller spent thirty years as a firefighter, instructor, and scenario builder. Someone who taught others how to walk through smoke-filled hallways—and live to tell the tale. Until Gluckstreet. One call, one dead colleague, one child he couldn’t reach. Since then, the fire keeps burning—not in the city, but in his head. PTSD, flashbacks, gaps in the night. When fires suddenly break out in his city that match old training scenarios down to the last detail, Jens finds himself in the spotlight: He’s the only one who knows all these “scripts.” He shows up at multiple fire scenes by coincidence. And he himself is no longer sure what he does at night. Detective Peter must decide whether Keller is the perpetrator, the victim, or both. Reporter Rachel Winter senses the big story: “The broken firefighter as arsonist.” But the closer she gets to Keller’s past, the clearer it becomes: The real fire lies in the system that breaks people—and in someone who exploits their cracks. When a school and a nursing home become the focus of anonymous threats, Jens is left with only one question: Can he still put out fires— Or is he just clearing away the ashes of his own guilt? A dark psychological thriller about guilt, emergency response culture, and the fire that remains when the sirens have long since fallen silent.

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