Wake of Ashes
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She erases people for a living.
No blood. No trace. Just code - and they're gone.
But this time, Ira Vale didn't delete a stranger.
She erased him.
Severin Cade was a ghost soldier - dead to the world, but alive in the shadows. Until Ira's hack wiped the last piece of his identity.
Now he's back.
And he wants more than revenge.
He wants her.
Trapped in a web of twisted memories, buried betrayals, and undeniable obsession - Ira must face the one man she was supposed to forget... and the truth about why she chose to erase him in the first place.
> In a love built from ashes,
what's left when everything burns?
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