To Love the Stars too Fondly (Steaming Hearts #1)

Five years ago, Terra Stern watched the love of her life die.

The screams, the gunshots, the cold concrete—all of it haunts her, and grief is a shadow she can't escape.

Nowadays, she's barely holding it together behind the counter at Tortalgan Coffee Co, her patience tested daily by Alex Winthrop, a devastatingly attractive but obnoxious heiress with a teasing grin and terrible taste in coffee. But when a stalker harasses Terra at her place of work, Alex steps in, and Terra feels something she hasn’t felt since that awful, fateful night: safe. After a shared kiss—well, maybe a little more than a kiss—on a stormy night, something beautiful begins to blossom.

But Alex has scars as well, and Terra's path of self-destruction comes with dangerous consequences. Is love truly enough to heal? Or will their mutual secrets drive them apart?