The Memory of Fire

Damian Cross, the teenage CEO of Vortex Tech, lives in a world of glass, steel, and constant, blinding pain. When he commissions a mural for his lobby, he meets the artist, Elara Vance, and discovers that her presence instantly silences the migraines that have plagued him for years. Hiring her to work through the night as a living painkiller, Damian finds himself drawn to her in ways he cannot explain, haunted by a jazz melody she hums and a terror of fire he cannot control. But when a storm triggers a violent memory of a past life they shared, Damian must choose between the cold safety of his empire or the terrifying heat of a love that has already burned him once.