What August Heard: A Overheard Betrayal Grovel Romance (Words Of Ruin Book 1)
August has spent five years quietly in love with Fletcher Calloway, her best friend's older brother. He's wealthy, emotionally closed-off, and frustratingly good at making her feel noticed while acting as though she barely exists. Each summer at the family's beach villa, she convinces herself the feelings will fade. They don't. This particular summer, though, Fletcher arrives with a girlfriend in tow. She's polished and pretty, and she takes an immediate dislike to August, slipping cruelty into every dinner conversation with a smile. August endures it all gracefully, right up until the night she lingers behind a curtain and overhears something that breaks her wide open. What follows is a slow-burn romance built around some well-loved tropes: the grumpy hero opposite a sunshine personality, a lurking dark secret, genuine romantic tension, and a grovel scene that earns every single page it occupies. The kind where someone ends up on their knees, heart in hand, making the reader both furious and desperate to keep reading. This is the opening instalment in the Words of Ruin series, a collection of linked standalones tied together by a single, quietly devastating idea: that accidentally overheard words carry the power to upend everything. Each book visits a different season and a different secret, but that gut-punch moment of hearing what you were never supposed to hear remains the beating heart of them all. A promising start to the series.
- Author: Sasha Rivers
- Publisher: Sasha Rivers Publication
- Genre: Short Stories
- ISBN: B0H24CC1KH
- Pages: 125 pages