Bruce C. Bee
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Burn Me Whole
A debut novel by Bruce C Bee
Burn Me Whole is a raw contemporary fiction novel exploring Black masculinity and vulnerability. Perfect for readers who crave honest, character-driven stories that cut deep
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
Before you buy: Signed copies of Burn Me Whole are personally signed and shipped by me, and they won’t start going out until September. From the bottom of my heart, thank you for your patience and support—it truly means everything. I’m honored you want to bring this story into your life!!!
About the Book
Bruce is no stranger to survival.
He’s lived through divorce, the slow ache of burnout, and the quiet grief of being a father whose kids no longer run to him at the door. When the weight becomes too much to carry, he walks away—Atlanta, his job, the expectations—and boards a flight to Jamaica with nothing but a broken heart and a carry-on full of questions he’s too tired to ask.What begins as an escape slowly turns into something far more intimate. In the heat and stillness of the island, Bruce is forced to confront everything he thought he’d outrun: regret, masculinity, desire, and the truths he buried to survive. But he doesn’t face it alone.There’s a woman who doesn’t flinch at his silence.
There’s a fire that doesn’t ask permission to burn.
And there’s a version of him waiting on the other side of it all.Told in raw, immersive prose, Burn Me Whole is a deeply emotional exploration of Black masculinity, vulnerability, and intimacy. It’s about the unraveling required to rebuild. And the kind of love you only find when you stop performing—and let the past burn.
Excerpt from Chapter One
I wasn’t running. Not this time.
But something in me knew I couldn’t stay still either.So I packed two shirts, no plan, and the version of myself I hadn’t looked at in months.
I left behind a city that never asked if I was okay, and landed in heat thick enough to slow time.Jamaica wasn’t supposed to mean anything.
But the way that first breeze touched my skin — like it knew me — I started to wonder if maybe I hadn’t come here to escape anything.Maybe I came to burn.
About the Author
Bruce C Bee is a storyteller from Richmond, Virginia, now based in Atlanta. After building a life in corporate America, he made the decision to walk away—without a plan, but with a knowing that he was meant for something more, even if he couldn’t name it yet.That leap launched a journey of self-discovery, where the silence of no longer performing was replaced by the freedom to explore. With the cubicle behind him, the world became his new classroom. From back-alley conversations in cities often misunderstood to shared meals with people who didn’t grow up like him—he found perspective, clarity, and truth in places we’re taught to avoid.His writing draws from these lived moments—grounded in cultural immersion, emotional honesty, and the kind of experiences that don’t need polish to leave a mark. He writes about what it means to feel, to fumble, to confront what we tuck away.Bruce’s stories are raw and unfiltered, cinematic in rhythm, and layered with the quiet weight of things unsaid. He writes for the ones still figuring it out — and the ones who thought they already had.His debut novel is a continuation of that work.
Why YOU Matter
This isn’t just storytelling.
It’s a space I’m building — where silence matters, where softness holds weight, and where the stories hit how they’re supposed to.I don’t write to go viral. I write to go deep.
And I can’t do that without you.These stories don’t live without a pulse on the other side. They need to be carried, felt, passed on.So if you’re here… maybe you already feel it.Join the Famlay and you’ll get to preview the first 2 Chapters right away. But that’s just the entry point. From here on out, it’s early drops, unfiltered process, and the kind of storytelling that don’t ask for permission.If you’re looking for something curated or made to please — this ain’t that.If you’re looking for something real?You already home.