Wreckage and Rain (Ruin and Reckoning Book 1)

INVISIBLE. ERASED. GONE.

Summer

I gave Colt Bennet my heart at sixteen. He used to slide into our booth at the diner after every rugby match, and grin at me like I'd hung the moon.

Years later, I was his wife. I just wasn't sure I was the woman he wanted anymore.

Cheyenne was always there. Sitting beside him at working dinners. Laughing at jokes he no longer told me. Standing at his side while I waited across crowded rooms for my husband to remember I existed.

Colt said she meant nothing.

Then I saw the photographs.

That was the night I stopped begging myself not to see it.

I left my rings on the dresser and drove to a city where no one knew me as Colt Bennet's wife. I wrote through the grief. Built a life from what was left of me. Became someone who would never again have to beg her husband to choose her.

I was finally learning how to live without Colt.

Then he found me.

Colt

I love my wife.

I also made her feel alone in a marriage I swore would protect her.

Cheyenne listened when I talked. She laughed at the right moments and made me feel like the smartest man in every room. I liked the attention. I let her stand too close, take too much, and occupy spaces that should have belonged to Summer.

My wife told me she was slipping away.

I heard her.

And then I went back to work.

By the time I understood what I had done, Summer was gone, the divorce papers were waiting, and my father's fingerprints were all over the wreckage of our marriage.

Now I'm dismantling everything my father built, even if it costs me everything I sacrificed my marriage to inherit.

Summer loved me for most of her life.

That does not mean she owes me another chance.

It means I'll have to earn one.

Wreckage and Rain is an emotionally intense marriage-in-trouble romance featuring a wife who finally chooses herself, a husband forced to confront every way he failed her, and an on-page grovel measured in accountability, sacrifice, and action. Book One in the Ruin & Reckoning series. A complete standalone with a hard-won happily ever after.

Tropes:
Marriage In Crisis · Betrayal and Grovel · Perceived physical cheating · Emotional affair · Other Woman Drama · Second chance romance · Redemption · Found family · HEA between the original couple