When the firefighters of New York's Ladder Company 189 pull Clare Cosi's friends out of a blazing café, the Village Blend coffeehouse manager happily comes to their rescue. As a favor to the men, she visits the firehouse kitchen to teach them the finer points of operating their newly donated espresso machine. But more than their coffee turns out to be hot. Somebody's torching cafés around the city and firefighters are beginning to die in suspicious ways...