A Mouthful of Smoke

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Alaric Evander Montgomery does not believe in redemption.
Not after what he had done. Not after what he had to become in order to survive. He buried feelings alongside his parents. And he buried them deep. But then comes Velvet Delacroix: all poetry and perfume, fresh from France and full of foolish fantasies.

She smiles too much, cares too easily and dreams too loudly. And worst of all? She sees right through him.
She is everything he cannot stand.
And the only thing he cannot seem to let go.

Yet some nights burn too bright to last and some fires are born to fade.