What Remains After the Fire

By Stacey Miller

When a fire destroys their home, Eleanor Harrington and her sixteen-year-old son Jonah survive with little more than each other-and the unspoken weight of everything they have already lost. Forced into a precarious dependence on family and systems that offer help with conditions attached, Eleanor struggles to hold together a life that has been unraveling for years.

Jonah, shaken by the sudden collapse of stability, begins to test the boundaries of consequence and control. What starts as quiet defiance hardens into a moral transgression that neither mother nor son can undo. As legal repercussions, shame, and financial pressure close in, Eleanor is faced with impossible choices: how much to sacrifice, what to forgive, and whether survival alone is enough.

Told with emotional precision and unflinching honesty, What Remains After the Fire is a story about damage that does not disappear, accountability that leaves scars, and hope that arrives only after real cost. It explores the fragile line between protection and harm, and the slow, difficult work of rebuilding-not what was lost, but what can still stand.

This is not a story about redemption without consequence.
It is a story about endurance, responsibility, and love that refuses to abandon what is broken.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0GJJQ1KSP
• ISBN13: 9798224583188
• Release Date: January 2026
• Publisher: Stacey Miller
• Length: 40 Pages
• Weight: 0.13 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.1" x 5.5" x 8.5"