Ash Without Flame: 1

Everyone sees the life Tessa Calder has built. No one sees what it's costing her.A husband. Two daughters. A life she's spent years convincing herself she should be happy with.She's mastered the art of keeping the peace. Swallowing the words she wants to scream. Smiling when everything inside her is falling apart.And telling everyone she's fine.The most frightening part? She's almost convinced herself it's true.Until a pair of bathroom scissors, a swipe of red lipstick, and a stranger staring back from the mirror change something she can't undo.Suddenly, the questions she's spent years avoiding won't stay quiet.The marriage she's fought so hard to protect doesn't feel the way it used to. Memories she'd rather forget are pushing their way back. And the woman she's become is beginning to wonder what happened to the girl she once was.Then there's Micah.He sees the things she's learned to hide. The pieces of herself she thought nobody would ever notice.And somehow, being seen by someone who isn't her husband feels both terrifying and impossible to forget.But the closer Tessa gets to understanding herself, the more she begins to question everything she's spent her life protecting.Her marriage. Her choices. The truths she's buried.And whether the life she's desperately trying to hold together is the very thing that's tearing her apart.Ash Without Flame is the first novel in the Ash & Honey series, an emotionally gripping women's fiction story filled with complicated love, buried wounds, unexpected connections, and the painful beauty of finding yourself again.Because sometimes the hardest part of losing yourself isn't realizing you've disappeared.It's realizing how many people were perfectly comfortable with you being gone.And what happens when you finally decide to come back?