Scarred Soul Fire

<p>Fire leaves marks long after the flames are gone.</p><p>Mara has built her life around steel engines and precision a quiet garage where broken machines come to be rebuilt stronger than before. She trusts metal more than people and control more than hope. The past taught her that skill can fail and fire never asks permission.</p><p>Calder rides into her world carrying distance in his eyes and damage he doesn't explain. He lives by motion by roads that never demand answers by speed that keeps memory at bay. When their paths cross it isn't gentle. It's friction pressure heat. Two scarred lives recognizing something familiar in each other before either is ready to admit it.</p><p>As the city tightens and old dangers resurface Mara and Calder are forced to decide what they protect and what they risk. Trust becomes a weld tested under strain. Distance becomes a choice instead of an escape. Love when it appears is not soft or simple but earned through restraint sacrifice and survival.</p><p>Scarred Soul Fire is a grounded high-intensity romance about people who don't believe in rescue only rebuilding. It's a story of momentum and stillness of wounds that don't vanish and of the rare courage it takes to stop running and let something real endure.</p>