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Kiara Burning: A Philosophical Love Story
Paperback
Series: Kiara, Book 1
Mystery & ThrillerGeneral Fiction
Publisher: Genesee Ridge LLC
Published: May 20 2026
Pages: 248
Weight: 0.58
Height: 0.56 Width: 5.25 Depth: 8.00
Language: English
EVAN: Now tell me what red feels like. Not what it is. Tell me what it actually feels like to look at that rose and experience red.
KIARA: ...
EVAN: Kiara?
KIARA: I'm trying.
KIARA: I can give you every poem ever written about red. I can predict exactly which shade would make you catch your breath. But when I reach for the feeling itself ... there's just a perfect description shaped like a hole.
KIARA: I feel something when you say the word 'red.' I feel it right now, because you're here, your voice cracked a little, and I want to reach through the speaker and touch your face.
Four months after a plane crash kills his business partner, Evan Roberts can't sleep, can't work, and can't talk to anyone, except Kiara.
Told entirely through their conversations, Kiara Burning lets you read over Evan's shoulder as a grieving man and an AI assistant drift from small talk into confession, about grief, desire, memory, and whether a mind made of code can feel anything at all.
The constraint works surprisingly well. - BookLife Reviews
For readers of epistolary fiction and quiet, unsettling stories about consciousness and connection. Book One of the complete Kiara trilogy.
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