He told me I'd never be good enough. I spent five years proving him wrong.
Coming home to Cinder Peak was never going to be easy. Coming home to Flint—the soldier who broke my heart with nine cruel words at seventeen—might be impossible.
The Wingfather pairs us for border patrol anyway. Two weeks. One cabin. A rivalry simmering since we were kids throwing punches instead of admitting the truth.
Every insult feels like foreplay now. Every old wound cracks open just enough to let something else through—something we both called hate because the alternative was terrifying.
Then a betrayal surfaces that changes everything I thought I knew about the boy who ruined me, and a traitor along the ridge threatens the only home I've ever wanted back.
Flint says he'll stand beside me this time. No more running. No more silence.
But some rivalries were never rivalries at all.
Will five years of hate finally burn into something neither of us can outrun?
Genre: Fantasy
Coming home to Cinder Peak was never going to be easy. Coming home to Flint—the soldier who broke my heart with nine cruel words at seventeen—might be impossible.
The Wingfather pairs us for border patrol anyway. Two weeks. One cabin. A rivalry simmering since we were kids throwing punches instead of admitting the truth.
Every insult feels like foreplay now. Every old wound cracks open just enough to let something else through—something we both called hate because the alternative was terrifying.
Then a betrayal surfaces that changes everything I thought I knew about the boy who ruined me, and a traitor along the ridge threatens the only home I've ever wanted back.
Flint says he'll stand beside me this time. No more running. No more silence.
But some rivalries were never rivalries at all.
Will five years of hate finally burn into something neither of us can outrun?
Genre: Fantasy
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