Roots Beneath the Ruins (De Rausch #1)

First Installment in the De Rausch Series.

Aeithyln Laetria Sorrena loved like it was the only thing she was ever meant to do, without limits, without fear, without holding anything back. She gave everything, every dream, every quiet piece of her soul, believing love like that could never be wasted.

But it was.

In a single moment, everything collapsed. No grand goodbye, no fight worth remembering, just silence and words sharp enough to stay long after he was gone. And in losing him, she lost the person she used to be.

Time moved forward, even when she didn't want it to. She learned how to exist in the aftermath, how to carry memories that refused to fade, how to live with a heart that no longer knew how to fully feel.

Until fate, cruel or kind, decided their story wasn't done.

Five years later, they meet again. Not as the people who once fell in love, but as versions of themselves shaped by distance, regret, and everything they tried to forget. Yet one glance is enough to unravel it all, the love, the pain, the almosts, the never had the courage to ask.

Some stories end quietly. Some refuse to stay buried.

And as the past breathes between them once more

If love once destroyed you, but still feels like home, would you dare to choose it again?