Ashes and Echoes

This novel follows Liyana, a queer Black woman who has only ever known how to love deeply and lose loudly. She's the type to remember your favorite snacks, listen to your midnight meltdowns, and write long messages even when she gets dry replies. She's always soft. Always available. Always hoping.

But no matter how much of herself she gives, she keeps falling for women who leave her with more questions than closure. From girls who breadcrumb her, to one who said "I love you" and disappeared Liyana is learning, painfully, that being built for love in a world that doesn't love gently... is brutal.

As she tries to move forward, she meets Khumo, someone who actually wants to stay but Liyana is so used to being abandoned, she doesn't know how to let herself be loved.

This novel is a slow burn of self-worth, longing, queer love, and the kind of heartbreak that lingers in your bones. It's for every reader who gave too much and got nothing back.