Fire and Flame 1 - Rising From the Flame

Ebook

A Love Forged in Fire and Blood

Arabella Carson loses her family in a fire just days before her eighteenth birthday.

She survives because one man pulls her from the flames. Cormac O'Driscoll saves her life and that moment becomes the axis everything else turns on.

In the aftermath, Ari turns toward skill, discipline, and precision. Her godfather teaches her how to kill, and she takes to it with focus and intent. Power becomes something she chooses, something she sharpens into purpose.

Two years later, men who move against Cormac begin to disappear.

The deaths are quiet. Surgical. Untraceable.

After each kill, an emerald green dossier detailing the victim's crimes appears on the kitchen counter at Cormac's estate.

Sometimes it's paired with fresh bread or a sweet treat. Sometimes a full homemade meal.

Always warm. Always impossible.

No alarms are triggered. No locks are disturbed.

No one ever sees her enter or leave.

Cormac, Lachlan, and Ciaran piece together the pattern over time.

A ghost is cleaning up their mess.

She works alone.

She leaves proof.

She leaves gifts.

They call her their dark angel.

For three years, she moves unseen, erasing threats before they ever reach him. Every body is an offering. Every name crossed out is gratitude made lethal. Her devotion to Cormac shapes every choice she makes.

When the past she buried in ash resurfaces, it threatens to expose her, fracture the balance she's maintained, and force the men she's been protecting to decide what to do with the woman who has been loving him from the shadows all along.

Rising From the Flame is a dark mafia romance driven by obsession, violence, moral ambiguity, and devotion without limits. This book explores how love, when left unchecked, becomes something dangerous and transformative.

This is the first book in the Fire and Flame series and ends on a cliffhanger.