The Fire We Carry
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Aria Holloway lost her sight in a tragic fire during her final year of high school - a fire that stole not only her vision, but also the one place that held the last pieces of her late mother. Sheltered and home-schooled ever since, she steps onto her university campus for the first time, quiet and cautious, determined to build a new chapter of her life.
Enter Asher Rutherford, loud, reckless, and everything she isn't. A campus troublemaker with a mysterious edge, he crashes into Aria's carefully controlled world like a storm.
But as their connection deepens, Aria begins to "see" him in ways no one else ever has, beyond the swagger, beyond the rumours, into the boy he hides beneath. What she doesn't know is that Asher has secrets - the kind that could unravel everything Aria thought she was beginning to trust.
As past and present collide, love blooms between two broken souls. But can they survive the truth when it finally comes to light?
A story about scars, second chances, and the quiet strength of forgiveness, The Fire We Carry is a slow-burning, emotionally charged romance that asks: how do you love someone who's still learning how to forgive himself?
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