Burned Into My Memory

🔥 Burned Into My Memory 🔥

🖋️ An Intense, Slow-Burn Romance by [Your name goes here]

📍 Setting: Boston & rural Maine — present day

💔 Genre: Contemporary Romance / Emotional Drama

💣 Themes: First Love • Trauma • Forgiveness • What We Leave Behind

💔 Rowan Ellis

She was seventeen when the fire changed everything—her family, her home, and the boy she swore she'd never forget. Now in her thirties and a trauma counselor, Rowan keeps her past locked tightly behind professional smiles and clean white walls.

But a letter arrives.

A name she hasn’t spoken in fifteen years.

And suddenly, the past is no longer behind her. It's waiting.

🎸 Jesse Callahan

He was the reckless boy with a chipped guitar and a bruised soul. She was the only person who ever saw through the smoke. The night of the fire tore them apart—and Jesse disappeared, carrying secrets no one ever uncovered.

Now, he's back in town for the first time since that night. A changed man. A ghost with a heartbeat.

And Rowan doesn’t know whether to run, or finally ask the question that’s haunted her all this time:

Why did he leave without saying goodbye?

🥀 The Flames Never Really Went Out

Drawn together again in a grief support group Jesse never meant to join, they navigate:

• 🔥 Heated words and unspoken truths

• 🎶 Shared memories buried in half-finished songs

• 💌 A journal Jesse kept… addressed only to Rowan

As they peel back the layers of what happened that night, they must confront what they were to each other—and what they still might be.

💫 Some loves never leave you.

🕯️ Some wounds never fade.

🔥 And some people… are burned into your memory forever.

📖 Read the searing first chapter of Burned Into My Memory now at TheFirstChapter.shop

🔗 A story of first love, second chances, and the fire we carry inside us—whether we want to or not.