Shadows That Burn

Some beginnings are born from ruin.

Aria Cole didn't leave her hometown.
She escaped it quietly, without a backward glance, carrying only the ache of something she refuses to name.
The city was supposed to cleanse her, a place where her ghosts couldn't find her,
where the past would finally lose her scent.
But fate has a cruel way of remembering what we try to forget.
One night, a wrong bus, a flicker of rain, and a man standing beneath the cold hum of city lights
Liam Draxen.
He doesn't believe in chance.
He doesn't believe in saving anyone.
And yet, when she steps into his world, something shifts like a storm that's been waiting for the right wind.
He sees control as his shield.
She wears confidence as her disguise.
Both are liars in their own ways.
Their story isn't about love at first sight.
It's about two broken souls circling the same flame
and learning too late that the light they crave...
is what will burn them.