Burn Me Whole

Bruce is no stranger to survival, but his life in Atlanta has left him hollow. He's weathered divorce, the slow ache of burnout, and the quiet grief of a father whose kids no longer run to him at the door. When the weight becomes too much, he abandons his old life and boards a flight to Jamaica with nothing but a broken heart and a carry-on full of questions he's too tired to ask.

What begins as an escape from expectation slowly turns into a raw, unflinching confrontation with self. On the island's hot, vibrant edges, Bruce is thrust into encounters that force him to confront everything he thought he'd outrun: regret, the suffocating demands of Black masculinity, and the buried truths of his own desire. He finds unexpected mirrors in powerful new connections-from the raw, uninhibited sensuality of a woman who ignites a forgotten fire within him to the grounded wisdom of another who sees past his silence and dares him to shed his armor.

Burn Me Whole is a visceral, deeply emotional work of Black literary fiction. Told in immersive prose that pulls no punches, it's an unapologetic exploration of vulnerability, unspoken desires, and the gritty unraveling required to rebuild. This is a story about the fire that demands permission to burn, about confronting the deepest parts of yourself, and the transformative power of allowing your past to burn away to reveal the raw, whole truth waiting on the other side.