Based on a true story
The author

Kamil Roszkowski

Portrait of author Kamil Roszkowski

Kamil Roszkowski is an adventurer by passion and a writer by necessity. He doesn't write from a desk — he writes from airplanes, mountain refuges, and foreign cities, because he believes the truest stories are born where life is most intense.

86Countries visited
3Eight-thousanders climbed
49Books published

With over 21,000 language lessons taught and 74 income streams, he has built a life many find hard to imagine. That same restlessness runs through his writing: stories drawn from real conversations, real risk, and real emotion rather than from a comfortable routine.

Cinnamon and Ashes — now published in 13 languages worldwide — is based on true events: a raw, autobiographical account of a real connection that burned bright and the fear that ultimately extinguished it. Every edition draws on the same real conversations, an outside analysis of attachment psychology, and the author's own unfiltered honesty — nothing in it is fictionalized.

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