Until it Burns

A Da Silva Sisters Novel.

*WORK IN PROGRESS* thank you for reading :)

Dr. Valerie Da Silva has spent her life building walls-around her heart, her past, and especially around Sterling Blaine, the brilliant, dangerously obsessive childhood friend she's refused to acknowledge as anything more. But when they're assigned to the same trauma rotation during their second year of residency, old tensions resurface-sharp, magnetic, and impossible to ignore.

Sterling, heir to a hospital empire and a man who's spent years hiding a storm beneath his flawless exterior, has only ever wanted one thing: her. And now, after years of therapy, degrees, and darkness, he's back-ready to claim the woman he's loved since they were children.

But secrets don't stay buried in the sterile lights of the ER, and love-especially theirs-has never been clean.

What begins as a game of power and control soon becomes a war between obsession and vulnerability. And as trauma strikes both inside and outside the hospital, Valerie and Sterling must face the truth: some people aren't meant to be saved.

Some are meant to be chosen-again and again.