Burning Heart starts with the question “What if there is a town that lives off serial murders?” When the dark minds of people who believe that “murder” can make money gather, bizarre situations keep occur in the town, and the past of the town people all come together to attack the darkness of our own society. The story is a metaphor of those who have fallen out of the competition in our society, and also a clear warning to the danger of what we can loose when we seek wealth from something that cannot be reduced to money. The more the readers are immersed into this bizarre town, the brutal truth of the one who planned the murder, and of those who were murdered, viciously come to light.

The town located at the intersection of route 2 and 17 is a small rural one next to a dry and dusty plain. It used to serve as a rest stop for truck or trailer drivers, but with the new highway, drivers no longer feel the need to stop there and the town loses their main source of income. Then unexpectedly, things take a turn. Six murdered bodies are discovered in the dry plains. Victims are all young people from the town who were thought to have left for a new life in the city. The case is labeled a serial murder and countless people come visit the town as it slowly rises to fame in the media. Investigations continue but the murderer is far from being caught. Soon enough, a film about the killer is made and when the film becomes a box office hit, more people come to visit the town. Townspeople realize that serial murders make for good money. 

But now, the number of tourists are down. An old murder case is not much of a money maker any more. The people of the town are thinking of ways to boost the tourism again when all of a sudden, a new murder case springs up after 9 years. Thanks to the killing, the tourists are brought back into the town. There is an odd welcoming mood to this kind of change. Benna is a witness to one of the murders 9 years ago but was later dismissed as crazy. But when she happens to hear the dying message of her good friend Nazo, who has become a murder victim, she decides she will catch the murderer no matter what.