Combustion

Combustion - Book 1

One drunken night. One vandalized mansion. Two hearts avoiding love at all costs.

Meet Lake-rich, gorgeous, and perpetually drunk on expensive whiskey, nursing an unrequited love for his best friend Lev that's slowly killing him inside. His routine of meaningless hookups and blurry nights shatters when he catches an intruder painting the walls of his abandoned family mansion.

Enter Callum-talented, rebellious, and in the cusps of a dying relationship that left him raw and jaded. He's turning his pain into art, one illegal masterpiece at a time. The last thing he expects is to be caught by the mansion's owner-or to be so instantly drawn to him.

Their first meeting explodes into a proposition: no strings, no feelings, just pure physical release. It's the perfect arrangement for two people running from love. Lake can distract himself from Lev, and Callum can forget his toxic soon-to-be ex ever existed.

But as things heats up, their simple arrangement gets complicated. Between steamy encounters and dawn conversations, they discover layers of each other they never meant to uncover. Their lives and friends become entangled and the past keeps haunting them both.

What happens when two people who swore off love find themselves combusting together? Book 1 charts their journey from that first explosive meeting through every burning touch and quiet revelation, as they struggle with their principles, their pasts, and the terrifying possibility that what they've found might be worth the risk of getting burned.