Thriller

The Ashes Know Her Name

4.7

140 reviews388 pages · Independent · 2026 · ISBN 978-1-0000-0004-2

She changes her identity, but terror finds her. A saga of survival, love, and the scars fire leaves behind.

Synopsis

Ana Summer was ten when an attack shattered her kibbutz birthday. Raised in the mountains of West Maui, she builds walls around her heart.

When the 2023 Lahaina wildfires engulf her world and her half sister is taken, Ana rallies old operatives for a rescue that leads beneath the island.

Fast, but never weightless. Nussbaum keeps the grief in frame while the plot runs.

“Fire takes the house first and the name second, but never the memory.”

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