Amelia Watson is a thunderstorm, and her temper a wildfire. Sherlock Holmes is an enigma wrapped in a riddle, his mind a place very few people can understand. Who'd have thought the two would have anything in common? It isn't easy to capture Sherlock Holmes' attention, so what does Amelia have that caught Sherlock's eye from the start? She always believed herself to be nothing but ordinary, but Sherlock Holmes disagrees. The game is on, and Amelia quickly finds herself swept up in the thrill of the chase--something she'd spent the last few years desperately trying to avoid. When an old enemy returns and threatens the one person she loves the most, Amelia finds her loyalties put to the test. The stakes are high in a game of life and death, and to win, Amelia must accept her fate. But how do you go from ordinary to brilliant? BOOK ONE IN THE INCANDESCENT TRILOGY ~Reviews~ "You have no idea how dedicated I was to reading this, I spent all night reading and I never do that for books, this book is truly my favorite book on Wattpad right now." -desperatelyx "I really love your story!" "...I love your book! I can't wait for more!" -GINALEXY1 "This is brilliant!" "This is good!!!!! MORE MORE MORE!!!!!!" -Renner_Addict135 "This is so good!" -call_me_bea "I love this story so much! It's amazing :D" -katemaya14 "It's amazing! Well thought." -AnikaMyers "This is such an addictive story!" -DevilsWear_Westwood "Love, love, love this story!" -PineHoultBatch "...It's too much on my heart..." -Brightsidelsr

Vatican cameos--those were the last words Sherlock Holmes had spoken before he'd fallen from St Bartholomew's Hospital roof, and Amelia has spent the last two and a half years trying to figure out what he meant. At long last, she's started to move on from the death of the man who changed her everything, and take a hold of her life. John's about to get engaged-if everything went to plan-and everything has started to settle down. But when Sherlock reveals himself to the Watsons that he is very much alive, Amelia's life spirals into chaos once more. There's a scarlet thread of murder and secrets running through the colourless skein of life, and it is the trio's job to unravel it, and isolate it. But as clues about the case are revealed, so are secrets of Amelia, John, and Sherlock's pasts-secrets that might just tear the trio apart. Loyalties are put to the test, and secrets that should've been kept in the shadows are brought into the light, and with those secrets come two horrifying criminals, bent on corrupting the trio beyond repair. Vatican cameos. Battle stations. Someone's going to die. [This story is canon-divergent following Series 3 of SHERLOCK.]

"Because you've forgotten what it's like to actually feel something." I whispered. Peter's expression softened and the only sounds between us were the steady unsynchronized breaths falling from our lips. He swallowed, the closeness of our bodies making my heart beat faster and adrenaline course through me. The feeling was neither pleasant nor unpleasant as I looked into his forest green eyes. "How can you make me feel so belittled with only words?" his troubled voice fell into a whisper and he gripped my shoulders. "Is it your goal to stand before me and pull me apart until I am nothing?"