Sun Bleached Flies || f.l.

Amelia Murphy doesn't do second chances-especially not after burying her mother and leaving behind everything she knew in Texas. Moving to Pittsburgh with her twin brother and her father was supposed to be a reset. Clean slate. New hospital. No distractions.

And for the most part, it works. Amelia is untouchable in the OR-sharp, relentless, already earning the nickname "Machete" before she's even fully settled in. She keeps her head down, her emotions locked up, and her life strictly controlled.

Then she meets Frank Langdon.

Frank is chaos wrapped in charm-brilliant when he wants to be, reckless when he doesn't care, and impossible to ignore. What starts as tension quickly spirals into something neither of them can quite define, let alone stop. He gets under her skin in a way no one ever has, and Amelia-despite every instinct screaming otherwise-lets him.

But Frank isn't just complicated. He's hiding things.

When PittFest explodes into a night of blurred lines and bad decisions, Amelia starts to see the cracks: the pills, the slipping control, the addiction Frank pretends he has under control. And just when she thinks she understands the mess she's getting into, the truth hits harder than anything else-

He never told her he's married.

Now Amelia is caught between the life she promised herself and the one she's falling into-one where love feels more like self-destruction, and the man she can't seem to walk away from might be the very thing that breaks her.

Because Frank Langdon could be her greatest mistake...
or the one she'll never recover from.