The Fire You Left Behind

Ten years ago, trauma therapist Clara Duvall survived a fire that reduced her childhood homeand her familyto ashes. The cause was ruled accidental. The case was closed. The past, buried.Until now.When Clara begins receiving torn pages from her dead sister's diarypages that should have burned with hershe's forced to question everything she thought she knew. The entries speak of an imaginary friend named Ash. A pale boy with black eyes who whispered secrets in the dark. A boy both sisters claimed to see. A boy who wasn't imaginary at all.As Clara reconnects the terrifying pieces of her past, a chilling pattern emerges: someone is setting fires across the city, each victim tied to her therapy sessions. Each blaze is a message. Each death, a punishment.And someone has been watching her for years.Now, to uncover the truth, Clara must return to the ruins of her old lifeand confront the whispers that still echo in the walls. Because the real horror isn't what was buriedIt's what never left.