The Bond Between Maggie and Beth, Why It Matters
Not sisters. Not strangers. Something stronger than both.
Some stories start with a love triangle. Some with a murder. Mine starts with a girl standing on the side of the road, and another girl who can’t quite drive past.
When I began writing *The Alpha Flame*, I didn’t know it would become a story about sisterhood, not in the literal sense, but in something deeper. Maggie and Beth aren’t best friends. They don’t even like each other, at first. But what forms between them is complicated, raw, and impossible to fake.
Not Quite Sisters. Not Quite Strangers.
When Maggie meets Beth, she sees someone broken. She’s used to that, she knows how to keep her distance. But something about Beth lingers. The bruises. The silence. The feeling that this isn’t just someone in trouble, it’s someone she’s supposed to help.
What starts as obligation becomes something else. Not friendship. Not even trust. More like recognition. Like they both understand what it means to survive things you don’t talk about.
The Strength in Softness
There’s a moment in the book, quiet, small, where Beth does something that floors Maggie. Not dramatic. Not loud. Just… brave. And that’s the turning point. From that moment on, Maggie isn’t just protecting Beth. She’s fighting beside her.
They don’t always agree. They keep secrets from each other. They break each other’s rules. But what they never do, is give up on one another.
Why I Wrote Them
I’ve read so many books where women are pitted against each other. Or where trauma is just backstory, not something ongoing, messy, real. I wanted to write a bond that felt earned. One that was forged in pain, but never defined by it.
Maggie and Beth aren’t two halves of the same person. They’re opposites. But that’s what makes their connection burn the way it does. One lights the match. The other keeps it burning.
And This Is Just the Beginning
*The Alpha Flame: Discovery* is only the start of their journey. There’s more ahead, darker things, deeper truths, harder questions. But this bond? This thing they’ve built between them? It’s real.
And in a world that wants to break them, that might just be enough.
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