Ashes and Silk

In Amsterdam, fire and grace never belonged together.
Until they did.

Elara Van der Meer has lived her life like a perfectly measured ballet - every movement controlled, every breath rehearsed. Born into a family that worships perfection, she was taught to smile through pain and dance through silence. But the stage lights hide the cracks; the loneliness, the guilt, the weight of always being second to someone else's idea of perfect.

Then there's Damián Novak - firefighter, paramedic, and sinner with a savior complex. The city knows him as a hero. The underground knows him as something else entirely: the owner of Kerosene, a club that thrives on smoke, sweat, and secrets.
He doesn't believe in love. He believes in destruction - in watching purity unravel and order lose control.

When they meet again after years apart, he smells of smoke and temptation. She still wears the scent of discipline and denial. He remembers her as the quiet girl who used to hide her bruises behind ballet tights.
Now he wants to be the reason she can't hide at all.

Their story isn't about redemption.
It's about obsession, control, and the kind of intimacy that doesn't heal - it consumes.
Because some people don't set out to save you.
They set out to burn you.