Reckless Desire

"He could pour gasoline over my world and make me float in a hot air balloon... but he could also make me fall into total darkness."

At nineteen, Kaya Erdoğan left behind the rigid traditions of her Istanbul neighborhood to chase freedom on the coastal shores of Muğla. What she never expected was that the ultimate storm of her life would come with a name: Ferit Yilmaz.

Tall, commanding, with striking blue eyes and an irresistible arrogance, Ferit was chaos incarnate-a rebel with a phoenix tattooed across his chest and an intoxicating hold over Kaya's heart. Together, they surrendered to a consuming, larger-than-life passion, the kind usually reserved for movie screens and romance novels.

Ten years later, however, that fairytale has turned into a quiet, relentless vigil.

Trapped in a coma for three long years following a devastating accident, Ferit lies still in a hospital bed while Kaya moves through life on automatic pilot, existing only as a shell of herself while raising their six-year-old daughter, Zeynep. To the little girl, Kaya retells the story of their epic love as a bedtime tale to keep his memory alive. To the rest of the world, she is merely a shadow waiting for a miracle.

When the unexpected kindness of Hande and Serkan Bolat gently breaks through her walls, Kaya is finally forced to face the memories she has kept buried. As she begins to share her past, the moments that defined her come rushing back like the morning sun.

In this gripping story of passion, grief, and redemption, Kaya must revisit the most intense and dangerous chapters of her life-and discover whether the reckless desire that bound them together will be enough to wake the man she loves, or if she will have to learn how to rise from her own ashes.