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Ashes of a Valentine

Words: 2147 · Source Novel:: Deadly Valentine

Ellis Morgan, a sharp but emotionally guarded claims adjuster for Apex Indemnity, examines the gutted remains of Cedar Ridge. The official report blames ThermoTech Builders’ negligence, but Ellis discovers a heat-fused plastic sleeve containing a typed sonnet: “For Dominic, whose heart was a liar.” The poem’s obsessive language doesn’t fit a simple accident. She photographs the evidence before the police dismiss it as scrap. That night, her anonymous database search returns three other unsolved fire deaths where similar love-themed condemnations were found. A pattern emerges: all victims had documented infidelities. When her own apartment is broken into and the poem is stolen, Ellis realizes the killer is watching—and has just added her to the investigation’s next page.