Tarmac & Ashes

Four days. A quarter-million strangers. And a festival built to burn.

Maya Vance flew twenty hours from Melbourne with nothing but a 35mm camera and a plan to disappear for four days - no expectations, no good-daughter act, no life mapped out by anyone but her. Woodstock '99 was supposed to be wild music and better photographs. She didn't expect the heat to turn an air force base into a war zone. She definitely didn't expect him.

Jax Miller came to numb out, not fall in love. Broad, tattooed, and carrying his family's survival on his shoulders back in Jersey, he has exactly one rule for the weekend: don't get attached. Then he catches a reckless blonde photographer half a second before the crowd swallows her whole, and the rule doesn't survive the hour.

Four days of ash, fire, and a slow burn neither of them planned on. And when the festival finally collapses into the riot that ends it, they'll have to decide if what they found was only ever going to last as long as the smoke did - or if it's worth burning down two entire lives, on opposite sides of the world, to keep.

18+ | Slow burn → explicit | Woodstock '99 | Opposites attract | Long-distance romance |