"Everything will be okay in the end. If it's not okay, it's not the end."
- John Lennon
Writing Broken Hope has been both the hardest and most healing part of Lucas and Emilia's journey. Their story taught me that even in the darkest moments, love still finds a way to reach us.
Thank you for holding on through every heartbreak and every fragile flicker of hope. Your love for these characters means the world to me.
The final installment of Lucas and Emilia's journey continues in Broken Courage (Lucas & Emilia Book 3) — now available to read.
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BROKEN COURAGE
(Broken Redemption: Lucas & Emilia Book 3)
While tortured and held captive as a prisoner of war, she became my reason to keep breathing. The force that fueled my will to fight. To survive.
When I woke after the rescue to discover the life I thought I was coming home to was but a figment of my imagination, hallucinations brought about by pain, desperation, and isolation... it nearly broke me.
Fifteen years since I first lost her, at last, we have a second chance. Holding her in my arms, finally feeling the warmth of her skin as she melts under my touch, is like a dream. She and her two little girls are now as essential to my existence as the air I breathe.
However, just as things start falling into place, the universe steps in, threatening to take it all away. I used to think that choosing her cost me everything I'd ever loved, but now I see that in choosing her and her children, I have the chance to reclaim all that I lost. They are my salvation. My true path to redemption.
Which is why I'll leave no stone unturned, why I will scorch this world to the ground if that's what it takes to save them.
And when I do, I will fight to convince her once and for all they are meant to be mine, just as I was destined to be theirs.
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💔 Continue Lucas & Emilia's story in Broken Courage — available now wherever you're reading.
Thank you for believing in these characters, for every message, every comment, every moment you've spent inside their world. You make it all worth it.
With all my heart,
Ariana ✨
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BROKEN HOPE (Lucas & Emilia Book 2)
RomanceI was so damn naive it's no wonder I've ended up here. Kidnapped by the man who promised me forever, just as I'd begun to understand the depths of his betrayal. It's a sad truth I didn't marry my husband for love. I married him for the life he promi...
