She never wanted to fall in love with him. Rue james was just a freshman, quiet, obedient, and eager to please her family her father especially until the day she was under the same roof with jordan rogers , the arrogant final-year medical student everyone feared. He was everything she should have stayed away from:hostile, reckless, short-tempered, intoxicatingly confident. Yet from the moment his sharp eyes found her, she became his obsession and also a weakness he wouldn't let anyone to know. He bosses her around,where to sit who to befriend, how to study and when and where to do it and though she resisted at first, she could never resist the the pull and weird language her body always spoke in his presence. His dominance possessed her, but his tenderness undid her. Against her better judgment, Rue submitted to him completely, drowning in a love and affection that consumed every part of her. But love that burns too brightly cannot escape it's shadows. One simple kiss exposed them, and her father tore their world apart, forcing her into a marriage she never wanted. Jordan spiraled into addiction and rage, while Rue carried a secret that could never be erased: a child not yet born but has a lot to say Ashes of Desire is a story of obsession, heartbreak, and the kind of love that destroys as much as it saves. A tale where surrender becomes strength and and even in the worst conditions the heart was still there.