Eric j neal jun 2025 (1 risultati)
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Da: AHA-BUCH GmbH, Einbeck, GermaniaAHA-BUCH GmbH
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Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Smoke Between UsA Novel of Love, Loss, and the Healing FlameEvan Holt was built for fire-calm under pressure, fearless in chaos, and willing to throw himself into burning buildings when others turned away. But after years of emergency calls steeped in tragedy, the fire is no longer just ou…t there-it's inside him. Nightmares stalk his sleep. Anger simmers beneath his skin. And something vital inside him is beginning to fracture.After one call goes particularly wrong, his team pushes him to seek help. That's how he ends up in the office of Dr. Lena Rowan-a psychologist known for her poise, precision, and quiet resilience. She's steady where he's volatile, patient where he's stubborn. And their first sessions are nothing short of a battlefield. Evan refuses to talk. Lena refuses to retreat.But the walls start to crack.As sessions unfold, Evan begins to relive not just the horrors of his job, but the trauma he thought he'd buried for good-a childhood fire, abuse cloaked in silence, and the faint memory of a woman who once shielded him from the flames.What neither of them expects is that Lena was that woman.Years ago, on the worst night of Evan's life, she had been the stranger who wrapped him in her jacket and whispered, You're safe now. Neither recognized the other at first-but when the truth emerges, it binds them in a way that no textbook could prepare them for.Lena, too, carries her own grief: a husband lost to suicide, a life built around helping others while quietly unraveling inside. The more she sees Evan, the more their pain mirrors each other's-raw, familiar, and dangerously intimate.When a rain-soaked night leads to a kiss that crosses every professional boundary, Lena makes the painful decision to transfer clinics. Meanwhile, Evan commits himself to healing-joining a group therapy program for first responders and finally learning to speak the truths he's long avoided.Weeks pass. The silence between them grows heavy. And then Evan writes the letter that changes everything.'You weren't just my psychologist. You were the first person to stay.'When Lena arrives at the firehouse-not as his therapist, but as herself-they sit together as equals. For the first time, they speak openly. Honestly. Without fear.In a final chapter full of hope and quiet beauty, Evan brings Lena to the site of his childhood home-now a thriving community garden. There, he shares his plan: to launch a support group for first responders, built on healing and honesty. And he wants her help-not as a therapist, but as a partner.Smoke Between Us is a poignant, deeply emotional story about the intersections of trauma, memory, and unexpected love. It's a novel about what we carry, what we bury, and what happens when someone finally helps us breathe again.For the first time in years, he inhaled-and didn't taste smoke.
