From Ash, Bloom: A Novel of Memory, Love, and Home

By Maxella Qut's

I come home to Maplewood with a plan: pay Dad's bills and finish our napkin vows. Instead, the family ledger warms in my palms and drops one word into my vows: Run.

Jack Lawson builds forever and wrecks me with his quiet. He's the ex who shows up with a hammer and a half-built house that listens.

We make a reckless deal to raise the frame, and a snowstorm strands us in sawdust. Studs turn into promises; I try not to fall for the man who stays.

Pages shift, maps redraw, a broken spiral appears-on wood, in dreams, under the floor. Keepers step out of the dark, and the house remembers us out loud.

He sells our table to chip at Dad's debt and fixes the porch light and my stubborn silence. Then the ledger wants a price I can't pay without losing him or my sister. I choose us out loud and dare the spiral to burn.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0FQ22WPR2
• ISBN13: 9798263670306
• Release Date: September 2025
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 216 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"