About Beneath The Ashes Novel
Ivy Bright clings to a fragile belief: that a smile can fix anything, even as her world crumbles. Trapped in a cold mansion under the rule of a neglectful mother and cruel stepfather, she scrubs floors and hides her pain behind a mask of unwavering cheer, convinced that kindness is the last light she possesses.
Everything shifts when five strangers darken the doorstep. The Vitalo brothers—Massimo, Declan, Zayn, Jaxon, and Vale—have come to reclaim their birthright, stolen in the wake of their mother's death. They expected resistance and greed. What they never anticipated was her.
She is not their blood. Yet, in her unbroken spirit, something stirs a long-dead instinct within them: to protect. Hardened by betrayal, these men have forgotten all softness—until the girl with the relentless smile changes everything.
They came for vengeance.
They found her.
Now, the only question that remains is whether Ivy's light can survive their overwhelming darkness, or if the shadows that claim the Vitalo brothers will consume her, too.