The Death of Scarlett Chen

By M.E. Owens

Scarlett Chen is dead.

She died the day her fire consumed an entire school-247 people gone in the flames. Now she's someone new: Violet Reyes, a first-year student at Apex Academy, the most prestigious hero training school in the nation. Here, she can bury the monster inside her. Here, she can pretend to be the person she always wanted to be. A hero.

But the fire never stopped whispering.

It craves the burn. It hungers for the chaos. And it doesn't care about Violet's carefully constructed lies-not when a ruthless villain recognizes exactly what she is, and not when a government agent closes in on her new life with hard evidence of her past.

Violet thought she could choose to be a hero. She thought she could control the inferno inside her.

She was wrong.

When the line between survival and sacrifice becomes impossible to walk, Violet must answer a question that has no good answer: Who do you become when you finally stop running from yourself?

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0GWRQVDBK
• ISBN13: 9798254759294
• Release Date: April 2026
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 252 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"