Pits & Poison: These Godly Lies (The Peaches and Honey Duology Book 2)

by R. Raeta

neighbors sang different songs but gathered at the same table.

“You really do love her… don’t you?” Anna stills, listening for his response. Khiran breathes a laugh. “Love is too small a word,” he murmurs, “but I suppose it will do.”

East, Anna thinks, where the setting sun will be at their backs and they can avoid watching the last glimmers of light slip away.

For four minutes and thirty-eight seconds, Alaska is reshaped by fissures and landslides in what will become known as the most powerful earthquake recorded in North America. Only three souls will ever know it was heartbreak that made the earth split.

His distress split between two different women for two entirely different things: one drowning in despair and the other too beautifully optimistic to admit that loving him—staying with him—is bound to drag her into those same depths.