All My Broken Pieces

At nineteen, Beck Turner enters her first year of college with cautious excitement-a new town, a new roommate, and a future built on stability and structure, just like the life she came from. She plans to stay focused, stay safe, and stay on track.

Then she meets Eli Ryder-and everything shifts.

Eli is sharp edges and quiet storms, a guy from the wrong side of town carrying a past heavy enough to drown in. Haunted by abandonment and held tight in the grip of addiction, he's convinced he's beyond saving.

Beck sees more.

What starts as a chance connection ignites into something fast, fierce, and impossibly intense. With Beck, Eli glimpses warmth and trust he never believed he deserved. With Eli, Beck discovers the thrill of stepping beyond the lines she's always lived within-and a love that is equal parts joy and fear.

But love, no matter how powerful, isn't a cure.

As Eli's addiction tightens its hold, their world begins to fracture. Promises break. Lies spread. Beck fights harder-trying to be his anchor, his light, his reason to choose recovery. But every step forward drags them further back.

When his addiction threatens not only Eli's future but Beck's emotional survival, she's forced to face a devastating truth: love can open the door to change, but it can't make someone walk through it.

Raw, romantic, and unflinchingly real, this story explores a love fueled by fire and desire, the cost of loyalty, and the painful beauty of knowing when to let go. It asks one powerful question:

How far can love carry you... when the person you love won't save themselves?