The August Six
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Last published Thu, Jul 17, 2025
She is breathtakingly beautiful, impossibly wealthy, and perfectly composed-Manhattan royalty with a germaphobic streak and a tendency to spiral about designer handbags when she's nervous.
He is New York's most devastating heir-tattooed, brooding, and utterly ruined for anyone who isn't her.
Lorelei Hastings and Lennox Kingswell have been inevitable since birth, and everyone knows it. They are the couple-written in the stars, raised on legacy, and bound by something deeper than love. Something older. Something broken.
On the surface, they're flawless. Untouchable. But perfection has always been Rory's favorite coping mechanism, and Knox has always preferred beautiful lies to ugly truths. Because beneath the silk and champagne and society-page headlines, there's a secret rotting at the center of everything-a night seven years ago that ended their childhood in blood and silence.
They don't talk about it. Not with each other. Not with anyone.
They love each other too much to look too closely.
But secrets don't stay buried forever. And as the past begins to bleed through the cracks, Rory and Knox are forced to reckon with the truth they've spent their lives protecting each other from.
Because if love is what saved them,
The truth might be what destroys them.
A story about obsession, legacy, and the dangerous kind of love-the kind that survives everything but the truth.
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And when I had informed Finn of my obvious concerns, - He had pulled me up against him so close that I could feel his breath on my cheek, - and whispered in my ear ; "Baby no one's going to catch us. - " And for those few seconds I seemed to have bought every word. Emily Harrison, has started a new chapter in her life not too long ago; High School. And high school is the type of place where it either breeds change into you or those around you. So far it hasn't been her Torn between doing the right things and wanting the wrong means, witnessing her parents marriage crumbling right before her, her best friend of years now deciding she cares more about climbing up the social ladder than her friendship With Emily, and a sudden interest in a boy named Finn who is rougher than the streets and a flirt in a heartbeat. - Everything seems to be happening so fast, and all that Emily can do, is hold on. But with everything else crashing down around her she finds herself needing Finn more than she cares to believe Finn is exactly the type of guy she'd try and stay far away from: The type that's no good for you, with a charm that's too good to be true. Haunted by his past and the choices he has made, it might be too late for him entirely, - that is until he meets Emily Finn and Emily are exactly what the other needs But in the end, even love sometimes can't fix all.
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