Before I Break Seraphine
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Last published Tue, Jun 16, 2026
A love story written in stolen glances and quiet devastation.
Seraphine Everhart has spent her life mastering the art of survival. Trapped in a house that feels more like a prison, she tucks her wounds beneath poetry and late-night dreams of elsewhere. She knows how to hide. How to smile through the weight of things unspoken. How to disappear in plain sight.
And then-there's Matthew Lancaster.
Wealthy. Untouchable. Unknowingly dangerous. He sees beauty where she sees ruin, art where she sees scars. And when he reaches for her, it is not gentle. It is a slow unraveling, a quiet obsession, a hand curling around her wrist like a promise.
She should run.
He should let her go.
But some things are inevitable. Some storms cannot be outrun.
And Matthew has never learned how to want something without destroying it.
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