AFTERLIGHT

Elio Moretti's world was bleak. Grey. Dark.

When the woman he loved, Alina Romanov, died in his arms, she took all the light with her.

He drifted through the years like a ghost, tethered to duty, a life waiting for the end to claim him, but no matter how recklessly he walked the edge --- it never did.

Then came Hanna Park. Sharp. Clever. Enigmatic.

Disarming without trying.

What began as a no-strings-attached arrangement, a fleeting connection, began to fracture, reshape, and bleed into something deeper.

Grief, however, does not loosen its roots so easily.

And Hanna, she had never meant to fall for a man whose heart still beat in the rhythm of someone gone. Yet the closer she got, the less she could resist.

When loss hollows you to the bone, can anything grow in the emptiness?

And when love promises to burn you alive, do you flee --- or let it quietly consume you?

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*Afterlight is a standalone set after The Lies We Rehearsed; reading TLWR first is recommended.*