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Left in the Rain: An Angsty Slow-Burn Campus Love Story

Left in the Rain: An Angsty Slow-Burn Campus Love Story

J, Isa

Paperback

RomanceGeneral FictionLiterary Fiction

ISBN13: 9798167943612
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Nov 4 2026
Pages: 144
Weight: 0.44
Height: 0.31 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

Some words, once swallowed, can never be said again.
Bring tissues. This is not a fairy tale, and it does not promise a happy ending. It's a love story.

She waited in the rain for five hours. He never came downstairs.

Elsie Marsh arrives at Aldermere University with a broken umbrella and a father who left when she was nine. Ansel Reed is the boy who cannot say anything that matters - but who notices everything. The way she reads every number twice, to keep it safe. The coriander she can't eat. The small room that disappeared from the Old Hall's drawings, and that nobody else remembers.

Behind a sealed wall in the Old Hall, Elsie finds an iron trunk with her family's name - MARSH - scratched into the lid. Pulling that thread unravels the secret that destroyed her family: a change order with a falsified date, a father blamed for an accident that was never his fault, a cheque for silence - and the Reed family at the centre of all of it.

To clear her father's name, she must work beside the son of the man who signed the lie.

To love him, she must wait for words he may never learn to say.

Left in the Rain is a slow-burn, angsty campus love story about silence, loyalty, and the letters we write but never send - for readers who love bittersweet, tissue-box love stories, and who know that the quietest sentence can be the loudest one of all:

Are you all right?

Content note: this book contains bereavement, the death of a parent, grief, and the death of a main character.

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