Our story isn't like other love stories. We weren't destined to live out a "happily ever after." Our lives didn't get wrapped in that package. No, our story ended before it even had the chance to begin.
When I first saw Hannah at a party, I thought she was the most beautiful woman I'd ever seen. I needed to talk to her. Laugh with her.
I needed to know her.
...But then she was gone.
When I finally found her, she was in the woods. Battered. Broken. I kept her safe until the ambulances came, though I couldn't leave her.
Somehow I knew it wasn't the last of her horrors. Her pain.
Somehow I knew it was only the beginning.
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Deeply Broken
HANNAH My love led me down a path I couldn't return from. The sting of betrayal cut deep, opening my heart to another. But an evil wouldn't let me go. I met it at the crossroads and only one of us was meant to survive. Jealousy fuelled the obsession. Obsession fuelled the craze. But how do you fight the insanity when the ones you love watched you die?
GAVIN My heart shattered the moment I saw the life drain from her battered body. I fell apart at the seams. I couldn't save her. I thought I found her, only to have her ripped away from me. She was tortured. Broken. She endured horrors that nightmares are made of. Her last words were spoken as a goodbye – a final declaration of her love. But who was the recipient of the endearment? I guess we'll never know.
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Beautifully Broken
GAVIN My life spiralled in just one second. That's all it took for me to pull the trigger. To cement my future behind bars. To make her forget me. But Karma must have been in a giving mood because I was given another chance. A chance to make it right and help her remember. But there's no way to separate the bad from the good—the horrors she endured from the life we were supposed to have. And when I finally think I'm strong enough to walk away, she falls back into my arms. Now there's no way I can let her go.
HANNAH I've been told I had a life before. One better left in the past. It was dark. It was twisted. It was a nightmare brought to life. Though I find myself wanting—needing to know the gritty details when my body refuses to let me. I need to know why a pair of beautiful, chocolate brown eyes make my heart betray me. Why they make me feel things that I have no right to feel when my heart belongs to another. Everything about him is intense…dangerous…intoxicating. If I search out the missing pieces of the puzzle, I risk opening Pandora's box, and I'm not so sure I'm ready for the implications that will inevitably follow.
___________ This is a three-book series. Each book should be read in order to avoid any spoilers and to follow the continuity of the story.
Read the whole series: Book 1: Tragically Broken Book 2: Deeply Broken Book 3: Beautifully Broken
These books contain mild language, sexual content and violence, as well as material that may be triggering or disturbing to some readers.
Not recommended for persons under 18 years of age.
A. R. WILE IS A CANADIAN AUTHOR who writes dark romance novels that combine characters with troubled pasts, sarcastic and witty banter, as well as an enthralling battle for a well-deserved happily ever after. She lives with her husband, two children and four fur babies. When she’s not writing or spending time with her family, she’s obsessively reading any books she can find, singing, or finding more ways to be creative through digital design.