Angela Bycroft

“She could still feel Roman’s breath in her hair as he held her, as if nothing would ever come between them. Two weeks felt like a gasp of time—it could have been yesterday for how raw Iris’s inner wounds were—and yet here in Oath, surrounded by people who were living life as normal, as if war didn’t rage kilometers to the west … it made those days at Avalon Bluff feel like a fever dream. Or like they had happened years ago, and Iris’s memory had retraced those moments so many times they had turned sepia with age and wear.”
― Rebecca Ross, Ruthless Vows