First Installment in the De Rausch Series. Aeithyln Laetria Sorrena gave her all to Maverick Larkin De Rausch, pouring every piece of her heart, every ounce of trust, into a love she thought would last a lifetime. But in the end, he walked away, leaving her with nothing but silence and the cruelest words, a chasm of absence where their dreams used to be. Left alone in the ruins of the life they had built together, she found herself questioning everything-love, loyalty, sacrifice, and what it truly means to give your all to someone who chooses not to stay. Time, however, has a strange way of planting seeds in the places we thought had long been barren. Pain fades, scars remain, and hearts learn to beat again-even if hesitantly, even if carefully. Five years later, fate draws them back into the same orbit. Older. Wiser. Changed by distance, by regrets, by choices that neither could forget. Still healing from a love that once shattered them, they meet again, their eyes locking across the space that has grown between them. The past, once buried beneath anger and heartbreak, rises once more-not to haunt them, but to demand answers they never dared to ask. As Aeithyln stands before Larkin, memories flood back-the laughter, the promises, the unspoken words. Every touch, every glance, every shared dream plays like a ghost in her mind. And she wonders, with a quiet, aching curiosity: Was their ending truly the end... or is it only the beginning of a story neither of them saw coming, buried deep beneath the wreckage of what once was?

Second Installment in the De Rausch Series.