Burning Meridian: A Novel of Love, Loss, and Finding Home in a Stranger

She was sitting by a window in Lisbon when he walked through the door - soaking wet, bleeding, and carrying the kind of sadness she recognized in herself.

Irina Volkov is twenty-six, Russian, and three months into a journey that was supposed to be freedom but feels like exile. She left Saint Petersburg with a packed bag and an unanswered question: how do you watch someone you love choose to stop fighting?

Arjun Mehra walked away from his own wedding the night before the ceremony - two hundred...