

I didn’t heed the warning and decided to read them during a trip to Mississippi with my girls for a Soccer College Showcase. I kept seeing TikTok videos and Bookstagram posts on how these books would break me. I told myself I would hold off reading The Ravenhood books by Kate Stewart. At least that was the case for me and the men I trusted my foolish heart to.Looking back, I’m convinced I willed my story into existence due to my illness. And all were punished. You can’t re-live your own love story, because by the time you’ve realized you’re living it, it’s over.

But in order to keep them, I had to be in on their secrets.Secrets that cost us everything to keep.That’s the novelty of fiction versus reality. I gave into temptation and fed the beating beast, which grew thirstier with every slash, every strike, every blow.Triple Falls wasn’t at all what it seemed, nor were the men that swept me under their wing.

Published by Self-Published on July 28, 2020Ĭan you keep a secret?I grew up sick.Let me clarify.I grew up believing that real love stories include a martyr or demand great sacrifice to be worthy.Because of that, I believed it, because I made myself believe it, and I bred the most masochistic of romantic hearts, which resulted in my illness.When I lived this story, my own twisted fairy tale, it was unbeknownst to me at the time because I was young and naïve.
