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Ivy’s best friend has disappeared. She was one of the few people left in this world that she cared about. But grieving Lucina is only the start to a cruel and unforgiving summer.
Ivy’s life comes crumbling down around her, falling apart to fast for her to keep up. Her scholarship is at stake, her late grandmother’s legacy is slipping through her fingers, and her uncle—driven by vengeance and old debts—will do anything he can to keep her under his thumb.
Bending her morals to stay afloat and barely dodging disaster at every turn, the only thing she can’t seem to outrun are her mounting feeling for Lucina’s brother, Jude. He becomes the only constant in the chaos, and the last good thing she has. But letting him into her vacant heart is dangerous, because losing him would mean losing everything.
Losing him would mean war.
And Ivy would wage it. No matter the cost.
Ivy’s best friend has disappeared. She was one of the few people left in this world that she cared about. But grieving Lucina is only the start to a cruel and unforgiving summer.
Ivy’s life comes crumbling down around her, falling apart to fast for her to keep up. Her scholarship is at stake, her late grandmother’s legacy is slipping through her fingers, and her uncle—driven by vengeance and old debts—will do anything he can to keep her under his thumb.
Bending her morals to stay afloat and barely dodging disaster at every turn, the only thing she can’t seem to outrun are her mounting feeling for Lucina’s brother, Jude. He becomes the only constant in the chaos, and the last good thing she has. But letting him into her vacant heart is dangerous, because losing him would mean losing everything.
Losing him would mean war.
And Ivy would wage it. No matter the cost.
174 pages, Paperback
Published October 31, 2025
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October 31, 2025
♾️ ⭐️
There are not enough stars for this book! The way Rachel has with words, the skill she has, needs to be bottled and studied.
Rachel is an automatic buy author of mine… she could write a weather report, I don’t care I’m buying it. The description, the imagery, the relationships. You feel everything so deeply. I should have learned from Anomalies that Rachel would take me on an emotional roller coaster and yet I was still surprised when I was sobbing 4% in and then immediately pissed off on the next page.
The fact that this series hasn’t been traditionally published blows my mind!
Rachel- Don’t ever stop what you are doing, you have such a gift and as a reader I am honoured that you chose to share it with the world.
Now if you’ll excuse me I am off to scream some more about the series that has invaded my brain so heavily since Throne Of Glass.
There are not enough stars for this book! The way Rachel has with words, the skill she has, needs to be bottled and studied.
Rachel is an automatic buy author of mine… she could write a weather report, I don’t care I’m buying it. The description, the imagery, the relationships. You feel everything so deeply. I should have learned from Anomalies that Rachel would take me on an emotional roller coaster and yet I was still surprised when I was sobbing 4% in and then immediately pissed off on the next page.
The fact that this series hasn’t been traditionally published blows my mind!
Rachel- Don’t ever stop what you are doing, you have such a gift and as a reader I am honoured that you chose to share it with the world.
Now if you’ll excuse me I am off to scream some more about the series that has invaded my brain so heavily since Throne Of Glass.
October 31, 2025
4.5 ⭐️
This book is such a great companion novella to Anomalies. In this book, we get to follow two characters we only see briefly in the beginning of Anomalies as they navigate the grief and hardships after “losing” their sister/best friend. We see our FMC and MMC go through their summer in search of answers of their friend’s disappearance, and along the way there is blackmailing, prison time, fights, a best friend’s brother relationship 😏, and so much more. It was so nice to see these characters again in this book and it just helped complete the story and plot that was started in book 1. I’m hoping we get to see more of these characters in the future of this series. Overall a fantastic novella and I absolutely ATE IT UP!!! ☺️
This book is such a great companion novella to Anomalies. In this book, we get to follow two characters we only see briefly in the beginning of Anomalies as they navigate the grief and hardships after “losing” their sister/best friend. We see our FMC and MMC go through their summer in search of answers of their friend’s disappearance, and along the way there is blackmailing, prison time, fights, a best friend’s brother relationship 😏, and so much more. It was so nice to see these characters again in this book and it just helped complete the story and plot that was started in book 1. I’m hoping we get to see more of these characters in the future of this series. Overall a fantastic novella and I absolutely ATE IT UP!!! ☺️
November 2, 2025
this was sooo cute and fun!!! I loved Ivy and Jude and I hope we'll see them again🥹
November 15, 2025
Jude and Ivy. Ivy and Jude.
You wouldn’t have Anomalies without these fuckers. Like at the end of the day they’re the originals that kept Lucina going.
This book made me cry🙂↔️. And that takes a lot.
I had the honor to “edit” this novella. Aka fix like half of a fourth of a sixteenth of a millionth of a sentence, then be dazzled by the rest. Genuinely Rachel never fails to impress me. Never making me cringe. Never making me pissed off in a bad way. Never doing me wrong.
If you want a dive deep into Lucinas favorites with some twists, turns, smooches, and punches?? Of course you do.
Read this or you’re a raging idiot.
5 stars. Easy.
You wouldn’t have Anomalies without these fuckers. Like at the end of the day they’re the originals that kept Lucina going.
This book made me cry🙂↔️. And that takes a lot.
I had the honor to “edit” this novella. Aka fix like half of a fourth of a sixteenth of a millionth of a sentence, then be dazzled by the rest. Genuinely Rachel never fails to impress me. Never making me cringe. Never making me pissed off in a bad way. Never doing me wrong.
If you want a dive deep into Lucinas favorites with some twists, turns, smooches, and punches?? Of course you do.
Read this or you’re a raging idiot.
5 stars. Easy.
November 4, 2025
This novella was so fun to read! It really followed along with the beginning events of Anomalies - but from a completely different point of view (Ivy & Jude). It is incredible that Rachel was able to describe their lives without Lucina - effectively creating two new lead charters, in their own story line, but connected to Anomalies so beautifully. I can't wait to see how she weaves them back into Anomalies!
November 18, 2025
The best novella I’ve read and probably the only one that’s actually had me hooked!
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