Ashes of the Heart (The New York Series)

She follows every rule. He has never followed one in his life. Neither of them was prepared
for what happens when their worlds collide.

Catalina has her life exactly the way she wants it — good grades, clear plans, and a
boyfriend her father approves of. She is practical, focused, and not looking for complications.

Niko is a free spirit who lives entirely on instinct. When he shows up at a family dinner at
her cousin's home, he does not just disrupt Catalina's evening. He disrupts the version of
herself she has spent years carefully building.

He falls first. He falls completely. And he does everything he can to convince her that what
she is feeling is real and that choosing him would not be throwing her life away — it would
be the first time she actually lives it.

But someone from Niko's past is hunting him. And they are not above using Catalina to
get to him.

A contemporary romance about a woman who always played it safe and the man who made
her question whether safe was ever really living.
Tropes: Free spirit meets by-the-book | He falls first | Family world connection |
Danger from his past | Slow burn | Choosing yourself

Book 4 in The New York Series by Cindy Santiago.