Burn Me Whole

This is not a book for surface readers. Burn Me Whole demands your full attention because it’s raw, unfiltered, and damn honest about what it means to carry pain and still keep moving forward. If you’ve ever felt like survival meant just barely holding on, if you know what it’s like to hide your truths behind armor—this book will hit you where it fucking counts.

It doesn’t offer easy answers or neat resolutions. Instead, it pulls you into the messy, uncomfortable spaces where real healing happens. It challenges ideas about strength and vulnerability, especially for Black men, in ways that are both gritty and tender. This story isn’t about performance or perfection—it’s about what happens when you stop pretending and start burning away everything that no longer serves you.

And yeah, it’s not just heavy shit all the time. There’s fucking passion here. Desire. Tension. Moments that’ll make you laugh or squirm. This book brings the heat in every sense—raw, real, and unapologetic. It’s messy, it’s fun, it’s life with all the edges left in.

What you get here is more than a story. It’s a full-body experience that will make you feel deeply: grief, desire, regret, hope. It’s a journey into the kind of intimacy most books shy away from—the kind that demands you look hard at yourself and question what you thought you knew about love, identity, and survival.

If you want a read that stays with you, shakes you up, and refuses to let you forget the parts of yourself you’ve been running from, this is it. Burn Me Whole doesn’t just tell a story. It invites you to feel it, live it, and maybe even find a piece of yourself in the ashes.

Praise for Burn Me Whole

"I just read the first chapter and I don't ever read lol but wow!! It's incredible and super relatable." — J.N

"This is raw and yet oh so delicate and stripped of any pretenses that humans typically carry." — JusRe

About the Author

Bruce C. Bee is not your typical author, writing instead from the messy, unfiltered corners of emotion, identity, and survival—the places most people avoid. A storyteller who doesn’t believe in polishing pain to make it pretty, Bruce’s work cuts deep, blending vulnerability and grit with cinematic realism. His debut novel, Burn Me Whole, challenges what it means to heal, love, and be seen, especially as a Black man navigating the weight of expectation and desire.

Bruce doesn’t write to escape the chaos; he writes to face it head-on.