HECATE'S TORCH

Max Wright has spent a lifetime mastering restraint.

Respectability, discipline, and careful distance have shapedevery corner of his life. Emotions are to be managed. Mistakes are to be avoided. Scandal is something that happens to other people.

Then he meets Persephone Lockwood.

She is impulsive where he is cautious, open where he is guarded, and entirely unimpressed by the careful boundaries he has built around himself. What begins as an ordinary acquaintance slowly unsettles the ordered life Max has constructed — forcing him to question whether safety and respectability are worth the quiet cost they demand.

Because some encounters arrive like a spark in dry tinder.

And once the flame is lit, even the most careful man may find that the life he thought secure was only waiting to be set alight.