The Day It All Burns Down

Upmarket Fiction with political suspense and a central romance

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Jun Wei fled the fictional city-state of Hoi Lok at eight. Twenty-five years later, a business trip pulls him back into the repression and violence he escaped, drawing him into the orbit of Mara Bennett, a colleague whose instinct to help others challenges every survival rule he has. When a protest erupts into a military crackdown and Mara disappears into a prison system designed to erase people, Jun must decide whether to keep his head down or trust the family he left behind to bring her home. Survival may cost them their identities, their futures, and the unexpected love neither knows how to carry beyond Hoi Lok.