Overview

Built From Ashes
Devlynn Devkirk didn't leave her old life so much as escape it.
Burned out, broke, and carrying the quiet wreckage of being used, silenced, and discarded, she answers a strange offer that feels too polished to be real. A plane ticket. An apartment. A promise that someone, somewhere, actually sees her.
What she doesn't expect is Misty.
Misty is calm, sharp, endlessly capable—and hiding her own scars beneath an easy smile and a practiced confidence. She's there to guide Devlynn through a program designed to help women rebuild their lives. What neither of them is prepared for is the slow, dangerous pull between them: the looks that linger, the touches that mean more than they should, the recognition that feels intimate and terrifying all at once.
As Devlynn finds her voice—and begins to build something powerful out of anger, truth, and survival—the line between professional and personal blurs. Desire grows. Trust deepens. And love, when it finally arrives, isn't gentle. It's fierce. Earned. Chosen.
But healing doesn't happen in a straight line. Both women must confront the pasts they ran from—and the futures they're afraid to claim—before they can decide whether what they've found together is worth the risk.
Built From Ashes is a deeply emotional, unapologetically s