My debut romance fiction novel and the first of a trilogy.

As I wrote this book , I found myself swept up in the raw angst of my two main characters, Baz and Maya & the ebb and flow of their lives, the quiet pull that keeps drawing them together despite the parts of themselves they’d rather keep hidden. I so want my writing to have emotional gravity I am not inventing these characters from a distance, I’m breathing life into them through everything I’ve witnessed, held, and learned in my real work with people who’ve carried trauma and still found ways to shine.

Together, they’re not a cliché of “light heals dark.”

They’re something far more human: I’m not just creating characters. I’m creating a truth about connection.