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Stories by: Dear_Rhian
5 stories
The Boy Who Broke Mirrors
Mia Evian has to piece together the mystery of Zack Maddox, the bad boy whose life she saved, while simultaneously keeping her own crumbling life together before Zack ends up in trouble again - or worse yet, dead. *****This is a love story.When Zack Maddox, a notorious bad boy, meets Mia Evian, a nobody with a disdain for arrogant pretty boys, the two teenagers' lives are thrown into chaos. Zack is a mystery Mia can't unravel, and as her family is torn apart by her father's infidelity, her newfound thrill-seeking attitude is the only thing keeping her head above water. As Mia's behaviour turns increasingly reckless, Zack becomes the lifeboat keeping her afloat. Mia thought she had a good grasp of the world, but she's beginning to realise the people around her are far more complex than she could have ever imagined. Worse still, she may not be the only one who needs a lifeboat.This is a love story - just not the kind you might expect. *****Content warning: This story contains mild drug and alcohol use and themes of mental health, self-harm, and suicide.Cover designed by Lucas Fisher
The Man Who Lived Again
When she uncovers his plan to lead an entirely uneventful life, Mia Evian is determined to teach Preston Maddox how to stop living like a ghost, but Mia and Preston have history, tension, and a lot of complicated feelings. *****This is a love story.Mia hasn't seen Preston for a year, and she's convinced she's experiencing a cosmic glitch when they bump into each other at a London university house party. Now reunited, it's like they were never apart, only there's an unfamiliar tension between them that Mia insists is platonic. As she and Preston navigate these feelings, Mia makes it her mission to convince Preston he's worthy of enjoying life, not just existing through it. The trouble is that Preston still has secrets, and if anyone in London discovers anything about the past he's hiding, living a full life could become the least of his and Mia's worries.This is a love story - one more like the kind you might expect. *****Content warning: This story contains mild drug and alcohol use and themes of mental health, self-harm, and suicide.✨ Sequel to THE BOY WHO BROKE MIRRORS, but can be read as a standalone ✨
A Pocket Full of Posies (Book 1)
Felix Reynolds, a university student with a sixth sense, has to uncover the truth about the past he has no memory of in order to unravel what really killed his family, and keep himself and his friends alive in the process. *****Felix Reynolds is your typical nineteen-year-old guy - least if you don't account for the whole seeing dead people thing. He swears it's not as exciting as it sounds, and it's nothing too scary either. That is, until he starts university. His sister, Annabel, who happens to be dead, has helped him manouvere through life fairly easily up until now, but not even she can explain some of the strange things that are starting to happen. After meeting someone else who claims to be a spirit talker, things start turning really weird, really fast. Mysterious entities start following Felix, other spirits begin giving him grizzly warnings, and the accident that killed his family and wiped his memory may actually be nothing of an accident at all. Felix Reynolds is your typical nineteen-year old guy, but he can't keep up that charade much longer. *****(Book One of The Posies Trilogy)★ Watty Awards 2019 winner ★
A Pocket Full of Posies (Book 2)
★ Sequel to Wattys 2019 winner, A Pocket Full of Posies (#1) ★After revealing his supernatural abilities, Felix Reynolds and his friends embark on a road trip to meet people from his past who can shed light on what happened to his family. However, as truths are unraveled, who can Felix truly trust? *****Felix Reynolds has to remember.After fleeing his university town to escape the dark forces hunting him, Felix and his friends set off on a cross-country road trip to unravel the mystery of a childhood he can't remember. They need to spark his memory, and they need to do it fast. If not him, then his spirit sister, Annabel. The trouble is, as memories are unraveled and buried truths revealed, Felix begins to question who he can trust.Felix Reynolds has to remember - but does he want to? *****(Book Two of The Posies Trilogy)
A Pocket Full of Posies (Book 3)
★ Final installment of the 2019 Watty Award winning Posies series ★Armed with the knowledge of what really killed his family twelve years ago, Felix Reynolds must learn to harness his supernatural abilities to prevent the uprising of banished spirits, and stop the one person standing between him and the rest of his life. *****Felix Reynolds has to put an end to what his brother started twelve years ago, once and for all.Felix must do everything possible to stay under Connor's radar. He also needs to figure out how the hell to control the banished spirits tormenting him, address the trauma of his family's deaths, and stop Connor before things spiral out of control. Nothing too stressful.As Felix begins to realise what he is truly capable of, achieving this doesn't seem so impossible. Unfortunately for him, nothing is ever simple. Felix has to be more wary of those around him than ever before, and above all, he can't lose himself along the way.Felix Reynolds has to put an end to what his brother started twelve years ago before it puts and end to him. *****(Book Three of The Posies Trilogy)