AUTHOR UPDATE
If you’ve been here since the beginning of this story… this one is for you.
The Terms of Us started here under Audrey Blake.
It lived in drafts.
In late-night uploads.
In comment threads and theories and “DON’T TRUST HIM” and “HE BETTER GROVEL.”
You watched Lucy and Julian evolve in real time.
And now… it’s grown up.
The full, edited, expanded version of this book has officially launched on Amazon and Kindle Unlimited under my name, Natasha Derouchie.
That means the full story will no longer live here in its entirety.
This wasn’t an easy decision — but it was the right one.
This book is the start of a full series (The Contracted Hearts), and I want to build it properly. With edits. With polish. With the added depth and scenes this story deserved.
Lucy and Julian are still exactly who you met here.
But stronger. Sharper. More complete.
If you want to continue their story:
It’s now available exclusively on Amazon and KU.
If you choose to follow them there — thank you.
If you’ve supported this story from its earliest draft — thank you.
If you’ve commented, voted, screamed, theorized — you helped shape it.
Audrey Blake was an experiment.
A space to try something new.
And what I realized is… it was never really separate from me.
So this story has come home.
If you’d like to stay connected:
• Follow me on Amazon to get release alerts
• Join my Facebook reader group
• Sign up for my newsletter through my website
• Follow me on social media for behind-the-scenes chaos
I’m currently drafting The Song We Lost (Book 3 in the Soundtrack Series), outlining Redemption Road Books 3 and 4, and finishing the Blood Secrets trilogy — plus mapping the rest of the Contracted Hearts series.
There is so much more coming.
Thank you for being here at the beginning of this one.
