Scars Made of Silk: The Stillness Between Heartbeats
At thirty-three, Celeste Marlowe stands at the crossroads of her life, beautiful, bruised, and breathlessly suspended between the woman she was and the one she's still becoming. Haunted by childhood loss and the kind of love that burns too brightly to last, she lives in the quiet ache between memory and desire.
Then comes Adrian, a man who enters her world like weather. With him, passion is not gentle; it's all-consuming. He touches her like she's the only truth he's ever known, commands her in ways that make her feel both fragile and invincible, and awakens in her a longing so raw it borders on worship. But Adrian is a man built of storms, beautiful, dangerous, and impossible to hold. Behind his silences lies a wounded past, one that pulls him away again and again, leaving Celeste starved for the very presence that sets her free.
And then there's Elias, the man who watches her quietly from the edges of her chaos. A steady flame in a world of lightning, Elias offers what Adrian never can, consistency, patience, devotion without the disappearing act. His presence is warmth, his words are safety, and his eyes see the woman Celeste has been too afraid to become.
Caught between two fires, the storm that devours her and the flame that could heal her, Celeste begins to unravel. Her body remembers one man; her heart begins to crave another. Torn between the wild submission she finds in Adrian and the peace that tempts her with Elias, she is forced to confront the most dangerous question of all:
Is love supposed to save you, or burn you to ashes first?
