Her First Kiss: 1

Previously published as Losing Ember, by Warmath, J. A. (AUTHOR).Please note: This is the Original Spicy Edition. It contains open-door intimate scenes, explicit sexual content, and strong language.A separate Closed-Door Edition, Losing Ember, is also available. It contains the same adult romance, chemistry, sexual tension, intimate relationships, and complete storyline. Sexual situations remain part of the story, but the graphic details have been rewritten or kept off-page.He was born to inherit an empire. She was terrified she'd be the ember that burned it all down. We were too young. Too intense. Too confident we could survive anything.Ember: Maddox "Mac" McKenzie loved like it was forever-fierce, steady, certain. I loved him the only way I knew how-quietly, carefully. With one foot always braced for impact. He was the crown prince of Texas oil who thought he could save me. But I wasn't the princess he needed; I was the fire climbing the castle walls. The night everything burned, I disappeared. I told myself I was giving him the future I could never fit into-before he realized it himself. He told himself I'd abandoned him-not trusting him to protect me. Some damage never heals. It spreads.Maddox: Ember tried to hide from me but I saw her-the beautifully broken pieces she'd somehow forged into a masterpiece. She changed me. Then, she left me with a void I couldn't outrun. I turned the ruin into discipline, into football fame, into a future. She turned hers into silence. But silence has a breaking point. And even buried embers remember how to burn. When they finally ignite, they don't just blaze. They destroy.Her First Kiss is Book One of the duet and ends on a cliffhanger. The romantic arc concludes in Book Two, His Last Kiss, with a guaranteed HEA.Content Warning: This novel explores the beginning of a journey through trauma and healing. It contains references to and a brief on-page depiction of sexual assault, pregnancy and infant loss, physical assault resulting in serious injury, medical recovery from trauma, dissociation, panic responses, emotional distress, explicit sexual content, and strong language.Please read with care.