The Way Back
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A year after narrowly escaping a night that changed everything, Evangeline Thornton has built a new life-one carefully structured, one that doesn't leave room for the ghosts of her past. Working as a journalist for a prestigious publication, she keeps her head down, her focus sharp. She doesn't look back.
Until she's assigned a story she never saw coming.
Her subject? Dust River Run-the band captivating the music scene with their raw sound and meteoric rise. The problem? Their frontman is Arthur Morgan.
The man she swore she'd never see again.
Thrown back into his world, Evangeline finds herself walking a razor-thin line between professional duty and unresolved history. The closer she gets to the truth behind the band's success, the more tangled she becomes in secrets, scandal, and the pull of something she thought she'd buried long ago.
For Arthur, fame was never the goal, and with it has come more than he bargained for-fractured friendships, whispers of sabotage, and the weight of mistakes he can't outrun. Now, with Evangeline back in his orbit, old wounds resurface, and the past refuses to stay buried.
As tensions rise and the lines between past and present blur, Evangeline is forced to confront the one question she never wanted to ask: Is the truth worth the price of letting him back in?
DISCLAIMER: I DO NOT OWN THE CHARACTERS OF RDR2 NOR DO I SUPPORT SOME OF THE THEMES IN THIS STORY. ALL CHARACTERS ARE 21+ UNLESS SPECIFIED OTHERWISE. I DO NOT BELIEVE THAT MOST CHARACTERS WOULD ACT THE WAY THEY DO IN THIS STORY :)
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