The Ways We Ignite

By Collins Fox

A combustible, boundary-breaking sapphic Indigenous love story about the courage to claim your desires-and the life waiting on the other side of fear.

Wren Banks has spent the last decade raising her son alone after an unexpected pregnancy upended her dreams of becoming an artist. With his tenth birthday approaching and her creative spark growing harder to ignore, Wren finally allows herself to want more. So when a new Tribal documentary project puts her in close collaboration with Tribal Councilwoman Beckett Lightfoot, Wren finds herself on the verge of a very different kind of awakening.

Beckett Lightfoot, the first Native woman Blackhawk helicopter pilot, returned home after years of service and sacrifice, trading military duty for a leadership role in Tribal government. A decorated veteran with an ironclad reputation, she's learned to survive by keeping people at arm's length-especially when it comes to matters of the heart. But Wren's warmth, wit, and disarming tenderness slip past her defenses.

Their connection is instant, combustible, and completely unexpected. What starts as a moment of impulsive desire becomes a fire neither of them can extinguish. But just as they begin to navigate the fragile, heady territory between lust and something deeper, two letters arrive.

Suddenly, Wren fears she must choose between a future she's longed for and the love she never saw coming. Beckett, who has mastered the art of control and invisibility, must decide if she's willing to risk exposing the most intimate parts of herself and finally be seen.

As their community watches, as old fears resurface, and as longing turns into love, Wren and Beckett must ask themselves: Are the things that set you on fire worth the burn?

Tropes you can expect in this book:
- Age gap
- Grumpy x sunshine
- A bi awakening
- A veteran who knows what she's doing-and a quick learner who wants to be taught.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0GJLXPT8Y
• ISBN13: 9798242920477
• Release Date: January 2026
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 254 Pages
• Weight: 0.76 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"