Hands on My Throat, Not My Heart

In the sweltering heat of a small Florida town, Jonathan and Mikyah have been best friends since childhood-two halves of a broken whole bound by years of love, lies, and unspoken truths. Their friendship is a tangled web of passion and pain, where toxic patterns blur the line between love and destruction.

Jonathan, a quiet and fiercely loyal tattoo artist, carries the weight of heartbreak beneath his calm exterior. Mikyah, a wild and magnetic bartender chasing fleeting dreams, lives on impulse and chaos, afraid of the stability Jonathan craves. Together, they ignite a slow-burning fire that consumes everything around them.

When betrayal tears them apart, both men spiral into desperate attempts to move on-Mikyah marrying a dazzling pop star and Jonathan seeking refuge in a marriage of convenience. But their toxic bond refuses to break. In a world that won't let them forget each other, they find that sometimes the deepest wounds are the ones we choose to keep open.

Burn Slow is a raw, emotional journey through love's most dangerous edges-a story of passion, regret, and the messy, complicated truth of what it means to be irrevocably bound to someone who both saves and destroys you.