Heat of the Fire: Where Heroism, Love, Deceit and Affluence Are All Consuming

With nothing more than the shirt on his back, Dominic Renaldi starts building a life for he and his family, a good life, a respectable life in affluent Coventry, Massachusetts. Some will say, "life is all luck," while others say, "you make your own luck." For Lt. Dominic Renaldi, who was working hard creating his luck, others were working harder to ensure he never got any. Billy Slayton, Dominic's biggest firehouse adversary, would often say, "I'll take luck over talent any day." Horace Humphreys, a powerful and egotistical Boston attorney, and Chairman, Board of Selectmen, would say, "teach him the Coventry way."