The Air Burns

A sharp, elegant, and addictive psychological thriller in which guilt and ambition collide in a fascinating protagonist who has crossed a line of no return. 

Lúa Cruz has it all: a brilliant career at an international advertising agency, a perfect husband, a son she adores, and a life planned down to the smallest detail. 

But everything begins to unravel on the night she flees the scene of a hit-and-run. In an impulse she cannot explain, she chooses to remain silent—and that silence changes everything. 
As she receives the most important award of her career and leads the reputational crisis of a children’s beverage brand on the brink of collapse, Lúa struggles to sustain a lie that is slipping through her fingers. Twelve dizzying days of anxiety, memories, and decisions that threaten to shatter not only her life, but her very identity. 

An absorbing novel, written in sharp, elegant prose, that delves into the darkest corners of guilt, perfectionism, and the limits of success. A story about what happens when the world demands brilliance… and there is no longer the strength to pretend. 

How long can a secret be kept? What is worse: staying silent to avoid facing the consequences, or learning to live alone with guilt?