Things seem to be on the up for builder Mark Poynter. He's got himself a nice little earner taking care of the sizeable property portfolio built up from the career earnings of former Premier League bad-boy and local celebrity Danny Kidd. But when Danny puts an interested party's nose out of joint by using his star status to gazump them on a development site - the derelict Admiral Guthrie pub - things turn ugly leaving Mark to deal with the consequences. Meanwhile local villain Hamlet dupes Mark into unwittingly help him launder vast sums of dirty cash. But when it drags the area to the brink of gang warfare Mark's help is needed to try and broker a truce. At the Admiral Guthrie secrets from the past meet conflicts of the present - will the rising flames reduce Mark's future to ashes?

Part of the Poynter and Perry series.