Some scars aren't meant to be hidden.

Some stories demand to be told.

Florencia Renee Ruiz has spent her life behind hospital walls and locked doors, haunted by pain too heavy for her young heart. Sheltered. Sick. Silenced. But everything changes the night she sneaks out — and meets him.

Rafael is a stranger who carries sunlight in his smile and secrets in his eyes. Night after night, they wander the world she was never allowed to touch — playing under carnival lights, sharing dreams at the edge of the sea, and painting hope where only darkness used to live.

He doesn't know her truth.

She doesn't know his real name.

And when the lies unravel, so does the fragile peace she thought she'd found.

As buried wounds resurface and old traumas return, Florencia must choose: hide behind the scars that once protected her... or face them — and finally trace the story they hold.

A deeply emotional journey of first love, trauma, identity, and healing, Tracing Her Scars is a poignant slow-burn romance that asks what it means to truly live, even when the world has tried to break you.