When Lila Maree returns to her childhood town after fifteen years away, she isn’t looking for answers — only silence. But the past has a way of burning brighter the longer you run from it. Set against the backdrop of a parched summer in the high desert, The Radiance of 100 Suns is a story of buried truths, inherited grief, and the fierce, often blinding light of self-discovery. As Lila begins to untangle the quiet unraveling of her mother’s life — and her own fractured memory — she is drawn into a reckoning that threatens to illuminate everything she thought she’d escaped.