Burning the Edges

Ten years ago, Seraphina Drake loved Matthias Calder with the reckless devotion of someone who had never been hurt. He vanished without explanation, and she rebuilt her life from the wreckage into something glittering and untouchable , a name whispered in Manhattan boardrooms and Manhattan ballrooms alike. Now, at the Metropolitan Library's annual gala, he is standing at the bottom of the entrance steps. Matthias has returned with a letter, a debt, and the ghost of the boy she once knew. As Seraphina is pulled between Aunt Imogen's expectations, the steady loyalty of her closest friends Priya and Jasper, and the magnetic pull of a man who still reads her like scripture, old correspondence resurfaces and buried truths ignite. Vivek and Eloise hover at the margins of her careful life. Theo offers a quieter escape from the inferno. And the truth Matthias has carried for a decade could either redeem him or finish what he started. Some fires don't ask permission. Seraphina must choose whether to keep burning the edges of her past , or step fully into the flame with the only man who ever made her feel whole.