WHERE THERES SMOKE Rosheen Hayes likes it hot. As one of the only female firefighters in her small South Dakota town she gets up close and personal with the flames every day. But theres something else burning deep inside of her. Something bright and forbidden. Rosheen doesnt just fight firesshe starts them as well. As a child Rosheen was part of a clandestine club of young firebugsorphans thrown together by chance and fused together one matchstick at a time. She thought that shed left that all behind but then a routine call turns up a smoking body with links to her own shadowy past. Before long more bodies are piling upand like a moth to a flame Rosheen is drawn inexorably back into her own arousing addiction. Writer Si Spencer and artists Max Dunbar and Ande Parks turn up the heat in SLASH & BURN a scorchingly original crime thriller collecting issues #1-6 of the Vertigo miniseries.