The House by the Cypresses.

When the body remembers pain, and the mind remembers fire. Healing or madness?

Plot

After the fire of the past burned everything to the ground, leaving You empty-handed and with a scorched soul in the village of Cypress Hollow, her personal pilgrimage through pain begins. While the shadow of the deceased Simon poisons her memories, and the fear of touch shackles her body with icy chains, Amelia finds herself drawn into a dangerous journey through the ruins of her own psyche. One death is an accident, the second is a coincidence, the third... a pattern. Having survived the deaths of two men she shared her bed with, You begins to withdraw into herself. The girl who once was always first and led others now gathers dust somewhere behind her twin sister, who met her man and found quiet happiness. You no longer planned to fall in love. Having lost Michael, the father of her child, before she even knew she was pregnant, she fled with her sister to Cypress Hollow, where she gave birth. She began to behave provocatively: she spoke bluntly, sometimes rudely, but always honestly. A little over a year later, wandering aimlessly through the village, she stumbled upon Simon, who was also not a local. At first they just happened to cross paths after sunset, then the meetings became intentional, intimate. And now, six years later, she stood before his half-ruined shack, watching the fire carry away all his secrets and her traces of presence on his territory; no one in the village knew about them, except the one who sees through her like his own reflection. Yet while the whole village simply considered her "difficult," HE reacted to her too brightly and too loudly...

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