Ignition

Ashlyn O’Monahan has built a life that runs like clockwork — steady job as a research chemist, stable relationship, predictable days. It may not be thrilling, but it’s safe. Controlled. Balanced.
The balance shifts when a stranger in the plaza locks eyes with her. Unsettled, she dismisses it — until a few, short days later he dies, leaving behind a silk scarf and a newspaper. From 1992. The headline: the fiery crash that killed Ashlyn’s father.
Drawn by equal parts curiosity and dread, Ashlyn begins to unravel the story of fashion legend Rory Mannix, a man whose mysterious death in 1992 may be entangled with her own past. The deeper she digs, the more her ordered life begins to crack. Nightmares return. The stranger’s presence lingers. And the truth she’s avoided for decades refuses to stay buried.
To reclaim her life — and her sanity — Ashlyn must confront the haunting connection between inspiration, obsession, and the price of forgetting.