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SEEKING REVIEWERS. Check out Broken People on BookSirens
YOU:
-Loves a good flawed main character
-Likes your romance with a side of darker themes
-Can break your heart yourself
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Broken People is a flawed romance with an emphasis on navigating life, love, and relationships while recovering from trauma.
This book is Mary Sue-free and promises no creepy virginity tropes.
The majority of the story takes place on crisp, Seattle fall nights and would go perfectly with a chunky blanket and a cup of coffee.
Maybe don’t read it in public. Unless you want to. 18+ content.
18+ content warning explained:
How much sexual content? More than enough to get me banned from the PTO, but not so much that I'd shelf it as erotica.
Trauma/Abuse. This book does not contain physically abusive romantic relationships, but does describe childhood trauma, abuse, and mentions past self-harm.
Profanity. Probably more than its fair share, if I'm being honest.
Blurb:
“On my very best days, I’m hanging from a very delicate thread, walking an even more delicate line over a river of broken things that I’ve barely managed not to let consume me. I do this by existing behind a veil of biased facts I tell myself about what happens when you expect better from people and what they can do to you when you let them in. Despite all of this, somehow, he had made it in…”
Ruby Vaughn lives her life by a certain set of rules. One of these rules clearly states that things like love and greatness—anything beyond basic contentment, really—was meant for other people, but not for her. A freelance writer by day and a bartender by night, Ruby spends what spare time she has watching her best friend, Evie, live a dream that’s always going to be just out of reach for her and the man she’s in love with, Alex, fall in love with someone else.
She’d resigned her fate to living a little smaller—a little safer—to keep her darkness to herself, but then she meets Jake, and nothing will ever be the same.
Raw with emotion and beautifully flawed, Ruby, as the antihero of her own story, is bound to captivate and resonate with readers who know what it’s like to lose and feel lost, and to find themselves again in the most unexpected of places.
ARCs for Broken Reverie Coming Soon!
Blurb:
“Sometimes, it feels like my life has become a revolving door of the living the same day over and over again, and the moments where I actually feel alive have become just that—only moments.”
From the outside, Evie Hale has the perfect life: a successful writing career, lots of friends, and the perfect fiancé.
She has what everyone else wants—the most that anyone could reasonably ask for—and yet, it isn’t enough, and she’s not quite sure why.
Evie manages to stuff it down, to quiet the part of her inside that’s screaming something is wrong until she runs into Adrian—a small and seemingly insignificant part of her past who evokes something in her she hasn’t felt in a long time.
With a wedding looming near and everyone’s eyes and expectations weighing heavily on her, what will she do?
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Broken Reverie is completed and in its last editing stages.
While Ruby and Jake are in this story, and you will get some closure there, Broken Reverie focuses on Evie. We get to see what is going on in her life and relationship that has her so apprehensive about the unexpected proposal at the end of Broken People, and those issues ultimately culminate in an affair. It's spicier than BP, but also not as dark, as she doesn't have that kind of darkness in her past.
Content Warning: sexual content and profanity.
Trigger Warning/Spoiler: This book does detail an affair, and I know that can be a trigger for some people and, at times, it's admittedly uncomfortable. A lot of times, books like these will make the offended party into a monster, and eventually reveal they're a big fat cheater that never cared about the MC in the first place. While the couple has their differences that threatens to destroy the relationship from the beginning, I didn't do that.
I'm super happy with how well Evie's story fell into place, and I hope you will all love it as much as I do.
Enjoy the ride.
“Sometimes, it feels like my life has become a revolving door of the living the same day over and over again, and the moments where I actually feel alive have become just that—only moments.”
From the outside, Evie Hale has the perfect life: a successful writing career, lots of friends, and the perfect fiancé.
She has what everyone else wants—the most that anyone could reasonably ask for—and yet, it isn’t enough, and she’s not quite sure why.
Evie manages to stuff it down, to quiet the part of her inside that’s screaming something is wrong until she runs into Adrian—a small and seemingly insignificant part of her past who evokes something in her she hasn’t felt in a long time.
With a wedding looming near and everyone’s eyes and expectations weighing heavily on her, what will she do?
***
Broken Reverie is completed and in its last editing stages.
While Ruby and Jake are in this story, and you will get some closure there, Broken Reverie focuses on Evie. We get to see what is going on in her life and relationship that has her so apprehensive about the unexpected proposal at the end of Broken People, and those issues ultimately culminate in an affair. It's spicier than BP, but also not as dark, as she doesn't have that kind of darkness in her past.
Content Warning: sexual content and profanity.
Trigger Warning/Spoiler: This book does detail an affair, and I know that can be a trigger for some people and, at times, it's admittedly uncomfortable. A lot of times, books like these will make the offended party into a monster, and eventually reveal they're a big fat cheater that never cared about the MC in the first place. While the couple has their differences that threatens to destroy the relationship from the beginning, I didn't do that.
I'm super happy with how well Evie's story fell into place, and I hope you will all love it as much as I do.
Enjoy the ride.
Broken Reverie (Broken, #2) is live today!
Happy release day to me!
Broken Reverie is live today! Pick up Evie's messy story and fall in love with her anyway.
In honor of the release of the second book, Broken People will be free today (1/10) and tomorrow (1/11) on Amazon.
Please check trigger warnings for both books.
<3 Elle
Broken Reverie is live today! Pick up Evie's messy story and fall in love with her anyway.
In honor of the release of the second book, Broken People will be free today (1/10) and tomorrow (1/11) on Amazon.
Please check trigger warnings for both books.
<3 Elle
Freebie today 1/15
Broken Apart will be free on Kindle today 1/15. This novella goes with Broken People and should be read *after* BP. Unlike the other two books, it cannot be read as a standalone.
Happy Sunday!
<3 Elle
