The Phoenix Burns

Cassandra Rayner watched her parents live out what appeared to be an incredibly romantic life. Her father Stern being twenty years junior to her mother Dawn, she saw his tender love and care as her mother fell into a life of early onset Alzheimer's and his refusal to leave her side. After Stern's unexpected death not long after Cassandra's eighteenth birthday, she's left to take care of her ailing mother and her younger siblings without much to pay the bills. The one thing left is her father's half finished novel, and as he'd supported them successfully in the past as successful romance novelist S.D. Rayner, she takes it upon herself to complete his book. Too intimidated to publish under her real name, she uses her childhood nickname of Phoenix, and when Phoenix Rayner becomes a publishing sensation in this posthumous collaboration, Cassandra finds herself embarking on a career she never prepared for.