The Kind of Love That Burns

Love wasn’t supposed to be this complicated… or this dangerous.



Catherine is just trying to keep things simple—new hostel, boring routine, and the safety of staying in her lane. But everything shifts the night Matthew walks into her life with a half-smile and the kind of energy that leaves her overthinking every heartbeat.



Matthew is charming, intense and everything she promised herself to stay away from. One message pulls her into his world…into his orbit and he’s not letting her go



It should be exciting. It is. But as texts turn into late-night conversations, and casual hangs feel more like something serious, Catherine starts to wonder if this is the beginning of something real—or a mistake wrapped in charm and pretty words.



Especially with Victor—her best friend—watching from the sidelines with quiet concern and warnings she doesn’t know how to un-hear.



Caught between something that feels like magic and a friend who sees right through it, Catherine has to decide: Is this the kind of love that changes you… or the kind that leaves scars?



For readers who crave slow-burn tension, late-night texts, complicated boys, and the chaos of first real love