She is a wildfire out of control. He is the steady tide trying to keep them both from drowning. Karmen Davis turns pain into permanent art, but her latest masterpiece is her own destruction. She's burning through her second chances, reaching for a bottle that promises to numb the flames. To the world, she's a rising star in the tattoo industry. To herself, she's a disaster waiting for a place to happen. Kai Liu is the calm after the wreckage. Four years sober and clutching a life as fragile as glass, he knows exactly what happens to those who play with fire. He wants to be her anchor-but in the deep end of addiction, an anchor can just as easily become the weight that pulls you under. One lives for the future. The other is haunted by the past. In a world of ink and smoke, they have to decide: is their love a lifeline, or just another habit they won't survive? When the truth bleeds through the art, will the very thing that brought them together be the thing that tears them apart? One spark is all it takes to burn. One wave is all it takes to wash it all away. Copyright © 2026 Molly Slipp (@mollys_lipp). All Rights Reserved.