Shattered To Whole

📚 BOOK DESCRIPTION — Shattered to Whole

Emery Vale never planned to return to the sleepy mountain inn where she once fell in love with her now best friend. But when her carefully built world in New York begins to fracture beneath grief and betrayal, she finds herself drawn back to the only place that ever felt safe — and to the man who showed her love in the first place.

Lucien Blackthrone learned what it meant to break when Emery walked away. Months of emotional outbursts, letting his company fail, and wrestling with the ruin she left behind forced him to confront the man he used to be…and the man he wants to become.

When a secret is discovered it threatens everything Emery rebuilt, Lucien shows up at the Oak and Pine Inn desperate — not for redemption, but for her in anyway she'll allow him. Sparks reignite into something hotter, deeper, and far more dangerous than either expected. But fear runs deep, and forgiveness doesn’t come clean.

As secrets unravel, futures shift, and new life takes root, Emery and Lucien are forced to face the truth: love isn’t about being unbroken. It’s about choosing each other anyway.

A raw, emotional, second-chance romance about rebuilding, healing, and finding the courage to be loved — shattered pieces and all.

⚠️ Trigger / Content Warnings

This novel contains:

• Panic attacks & anxiety

• Parental illness

• Complicated grief

• Past emotional manipulation / neglect

• Pregnancy & birth scenes (on-page)

• Trauma-related guilt

While handled with care, sensitive themes are present.

🔥 Spice Level:

🌶️🌶️🌶️ / 5 — Warm-Hot

• Detailed, explicitly written intimacy

• Emotional grounding through physical touch

• Several on-page scenes that blend spice and vulnerability

• Strong focus on connection, consent, and aftercare

Sensual, emotional, and purposeful — but not erotica-forward.

Page 104, Words 18,168