Overview

Swallow/Rondine is a woman who bears on her skin the marks of flight and return. It’s as if she were tattooed with absences, her skin telling stories of interrupted journeys and skies crossed too hastily. Angelica, instead, is root and fire: she carries light on her lips, but it’s a light that can become either candle or blaze, caress or devastation.

Between them grows a bond that is not merely attraction, but a clash of elements: fire that longs for roots and flight that fears being extinguished. Words become confessions, silences wounds that burn more than kisses. In a house “drawn in pencil,” slowly filling with colors, the two women learn that love is never a safe haven: it is a fire that can either illuminate or consume.

Singing forests, stormy nights, a swallow circling the fire—every symbol becomes both promise and threat. Will they manage to choose between staying and fleeing, between burning and flying, or are they destined to lose themselves once more?

An intense and poetic sapphic novel, where passion intertwines with fragility, and every page is a heartbeat suspended between fire and salvation.