The fires mighty spirit rested upon the room. The smell of fire scared him, but at the same time it was fascinating. He dropped a burning match in the trashcan among clutter and turpentine. It was as if the trash came to life. In the heat the can got curved and formed the shape of a face that penetrated the soft plastic. He didn't dare to move, though it was burning everywhere. The fire hypnotized him. It crackled as if the burning face would try to tell him something ... a secret about the dead children on mother's framed picture. Eleven-year-old Leo has lost his mother in a fire. When he moves to Visby with his father a series of fires starts in the same neighborhood. One victim in the fire is the wife of an politician who recently has being subjected to harassment. It becomes Maria Wern's task seek if the fires has some connection to each other. Clues lead her to a gang that has stayed together since high school. A group of friend where the fireman Björn is one of them. The same Björn that Maria has fallen deeply in love with. A Dance on Glowing Embers is a book about greed, about the forces that do not hesitate to use other people's vulnerability and longing for love.