Lost

Lydia Bennett grew up learning how to survive without belonging to anyone.

Passed through foster homes, she learned early that attachment was temporary-and love was dangerous. The only constant she ever had was Laurel Lance, the best friend who gave her a place to stand when the world kept shifting beneath her feet.

Through Laurel, Lydia met Oliver Queen.

He was charming, reckless, and impossibly out of reach. She loved him quietly, from a distance, and never let herself want what was never meant to be hers. When Laurel and Oliver fell in love, Lydia stayed loyal. When they became engaged, Lydia stayed silent.

Then Oliver Queen boarded the Queen's Gambit.

The betrayal he left behind-cheating on Laurel with her sister-was buried beneath grief when he was presumed dead. Lives moved on. Hearts broke. And Lydia chose a path built on control, becoming a cop determined to protect the people who never had anyone protecting them.

But the dead don't always stay lost.

When Oliver returns to Star City, he isn't the boy Lydia once loved-and she isn't the girl who watched him from the sidelines. Haunted by the past and shaped by loss, they're forced to confront everything that was left unsaid, every choice that changed them, and the truth about what it means to find your way back after losing everything.

Some people are lost to time.
Others are lost to guilt.
And some are lost until they find each other.

The lost souls trilogy

Book 1 - Lost

Book 2 - Found

Book 3 - Home