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A slow-burn AU about two women learning how to heal, love, and choose each other after surviving the worst parts of their lives.
Carina DeLuca came to Seattle to build a life in medicine, but a devastating apartment fire changes everything. Scarred, heartbroken, and convinced she’s unlovable, she retreats into a quiet job at a bookstore and a life lived behind layers of clothing and fear.Maya Bishop is a rising lieutenant with a past she doesn’t talk about and a smile she uses to hide how lonely she really is.
When Maya walks into Carina’s bookstore two years after the fire, an unexpected spark begins to unravel the walls both women have built. What starts as awkward flirting becomes a slow, aching, beautifully messy connection between two people terrified of being seen — and even more terrified of being left.As they move through fear, trauma, laughter, desire, breaking points, and the raw honesty of falling in love for the first real time, Maya and Carina discover that healing isn’t linear…but it’s a little easier when someone chooses to walk through the dark with you. A story about scars, softness, home, and the slow courage of letting someone love you.
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02 Jul 2026
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Carina DeLuca steamrolls into town and Police Chief Maya Bishop has a lot to hide.