Beautiful Messiness of Becoming

"Starting over was supposed to be easy. But how do you outrun the ghosts of your past when they live inside you?"

Ava thought moving 800 miles away to Riverside University would be her fresh start-a chance to leave behind the heartbreak, rejection, and trauma she's been carrying for years. But the past has a funny way of showing up uninvited.

New state, new school, new her... right? Wrong.

Between the fallout with her first college friend, late-night spirals about her ex, and the crushing weight of abandonment issues she can't shake, Ava's life is anything but perfect. She wants to be confident. She wants to be whole. But how do you heal when the scars won't let you forget?

Then she meets Malik.

He's everything she never thought she deserved-bold, compassionate, and just broken enough to understand her. His love offers her the one thing she's been too afraid to give herself: a second chance. But Malik has his own past, and Ava's insecurities might just push him away before he can show her what real love feels like.

Raw, steamy, and unapologetically honest, The Beautiful Messiness of Becoming is a story of trauma, trust, and finding beauty in the chaos. Because sometimes, you have to fall apart to discover who you really are.

Based on true events woven into a fictional world, this story blurs the line between reality and imagination-leaving you to wonder: what's real and what's fiction?