Marked
by Fire

Name: Marked by Fire
Author: Lorraine H.

High heat · Slow burn · Second chance

Twelve years is a long time to become someone different. Long enough to convince yourself that whatever burned between you has finally gone cold.

When two men find themselves back in the same corner of Australia, what reunites them is not the past they shared — it's everything that happened after it. The silence. The distance. The choices neither of them talks about.

A slow, searingly beautiful story about the weight of absence, the violence of memory, and what it costs to finally stay.

Genre Literary Romance · MM

Tropes Second chance · High heat · Slow burn

Series Standalone

Status Forthcoming — ARCs available

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Reader notes

This book contains themes some readers may wish to know about before beginning.

Explicit sexual content Grief and loss Emotional withdrawal and avoidance Referenced past addiction (not on-page) Internalized homophobia

Sample

"Twelve years and he still moved through a room the same way — like he was used to taking up space and apologising for it at the same time. Ethan watched him from the doorway and understood, with a clarity that felt almost cruel, that none of it had gone anywhere. Not a single part of it."

— Marked by Fire, Chapter 3

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