Smoke is the sequel to Burned, and it picks up right after Pattyn Von Stratten has killed her father and is now on the run. Smoke is told from alternating points of view, between Pattyn and her sister Jackie.
At the beginning of the book, Pattyn is on a bus, where she meets a very hostile Hispanic girl. When Pattyn has not stopped bleeding since she lost her baby in her car accident, so she desperately needs to get off the bus to change her pad. When the bus finally reaches a rest stop, she gets off and goes to the bathroom. She hears the Hispanic girl in the stall next to her, and suddenly a man walks into the bathroom and tries to rape her. Pattyn hears it all, and opens the girl's stall door and beats up the man. The Hispanic girl is thankful, and introduces herself as Adriana. They walk outside, only to find that the bus is leaving without them. Adriana tells Pattyn she can take her to her house for the night, since it's not very far away. She spends the night there.
Meanwhile, Jackie is recovering from her father's most recent beatings and answering lots of questions from police officers. She misses Pattyn and hopes she's okay.
The next day, Pattyn wakes up and meets Adriana's family. There is a baby in the home who is very sick, and Pattyn diagnoses it as measles. She does her best to relieve the baby's pain, and goes to the store to get the medicine the baby needs.
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