The Burning: A Brightest Stars Novel
Release Date August 1, 2023
Genre: Contemporary Romance/Military Fiction
A bond this strong can’t stay broken.
Life near the army base at Fort Benning, Georgia, might be small, but it’s safe. That suits Karina Fischer just fine. She knows letting anyone get close to her means she could get hurt, and she’s had enough of that in her almost twenty-one years to last a lifetime. The only man she’s ever let in, Kael Martin, betrayed her trust before they could find their way together. She can’t forgive him for what he’s done, but letting go still feels impossible.
Kael Martin’s scars run deep, but the mark Karina left on him is deeper. He can’t get her out of his mind or his heart. He’s ready to start fresh, adjust to civilian life, and build a future outside of the Army―one he hopes could include Karina, because their spark, while it burned, was unforgettable.
Now, just when it seems their world is crumbling and can’t be put back together, circumstances force them to confront what they can’t deny: the volatile, passionate, all-consuming love they can’t live without.
Karina and Kael's unlikely love story, which began in THE FALLING, grows deeper and even more intense in THE BURNING, the second book in the Brightest Stars trilogy.
Anna Todd
ANNA TODD is the New York Times bestselling author of the After series, The Spring Girls, and The Brightest Stars. Always an avid reader, Todd began writing stories on her phone through Wattpad, the reading and writing multiplatform for original stories, with After becoming its most-read series with over 2 billion reads. She has been hailed by Cosmopolitan as “the biggest literary phenomenon of her generation.” The print edition of After was published in 2014 and has since been released in over 35 languages with more than 12 million copies sold worldwide. After is a #1 bestseller in countries across the globe including Italy, Germany, France and Spain. Since the release of After, Todd has gone on to write eight additional novels and served as producer and screenwriter on the film adaptations of After and After We Collided. A native of Ohio Anna, her husband and son live in Los Angeles.
When she met Kael Martin she thought just maybe she had met a man worthy of her heart, but it didn't take long for her to learn otherwise. He betrayed her and it's just not something she can forgive him for, she's tried but it's useless. But she's also learned that her feelings for him run deeper than she originally thought and escaping those feelings is futile.
He wants a future with her that she isn't so sure she is the right woman for, because that would mean taking risks and finding a way to forgive and she isn't so sure she can do that...
The Burning is an emotionally charged story that is destined to make you feel things, your heart and head will be a wreck the whole way through. These two want a future they aren't so sure they can have, with outside forces and bad decisions that were made in the past the deck is literally stacked against them. But the love they have for one another is so deep that it's impossible to let go of, they are ingrained in one another's hearts and that's the kind of love you have no choice but to hold on to.
It's a messy and complicated romance that is bound to wreck your heart every step of the way, but I promise it's worth it, the happier moments will eventually come. I cannot wait to see what the pages of the next installment hold for these two... book three can't come soon enough!!! Highly recommend!
I requested an advanced copy of this title from the publisher, and I am voluntarily leaving my honest and unbiased opinion.
The publisher, WattPad Books, via NetGalley Request
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