At just eighteen years old, Abbey was riding a moped with her best friend through the streets of Cambodia when the world exploded. In an instant, she was on fire. Burned over 30 percent of her body and stranded thousands of miles from home, she was thrown into a medical nightmare: makeshift clinics, language barriers, embassy red tape, and the long, excruciating wait for a medevac team to get her out alive. After the Flame is a raw and sharply honest memoir about what happens when your life burns down around you. It is about trauma, survival, hospitals, skin grafts, and the long, painful process of piecing yourself back together. Told with dry wit and an unflinching voice, this short memoir pulls no punches. It is brutal, real, and sometimes even funny. A glimpse into what it means to fall apart and fight your way forward anyway.