Dianekeyser1804
Between Stillness and Flame
When Isla, a reserved woman in her forties, meets Ava, a sharp, quietly luminous eighteen-year-old, in the back corner of a quiet bookstore, neither expects the connection that begins to unfold-tentative, tender, and quietly charged. What begins as a shared love of literature turns into something more: a slow, emotionally complex dance between fear and longing, silence and intimacy.
Told in dual perspectives, Between Stillness and Flame explores the ache of restraint, the beauty of emotional risk, and what it means to be truly seen by someone at the edge of your world. In the stillness of galleries, the hush of late-night texts, and the heat of words left unsaid, two women find themselves drawn toward a line neither is sure they should cross-but both are beginning to want to.
A story of slow-burning connection, age, vulnerability, and trust-this is not a love story rushed, but one remembered.