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The Ruins Of Us
Paperback
Publisher: Sandeep Rao
Published: Mar 25 2026
Pages: 94
Weight: 0.53
Height: 0.19 Width: 8.50 Depth: 11.00
Language: English
She left without a word. He never stopped looking for answers.
Four years ago, Ava Mercer fled the small coastal town of Whitmore, Oregon, in the middle of the night - leaving behind the only man she ever loved and a secret she couldn't bear to carry alone. She saw something on Heron Cliff that night. Something that haunts her still. Something that someone killed to keep hidden.
Now, a letter with no return address pulls her back.
Come back to Whitmore. You owe me the truth.
Kael Thorne has spent four years grieving two losses - his younger brother Nolan, whose death was ruled an accident, and Ava, the woman who vanished from his bed the same night Nolan died. When he discovers his brother's hidden journal, the coincidence becomes impossible to ignore. Nolan was investigating a dangerous web of corruption buried deep in Whitmore's foundations. And someone silenced him for it.
Now Kael needs the one person who was there that night. The one person who saw what happened. The one person who broke his heart.
As Ava and Kael are drawn back together - by grief, by guilt, by a pull neither of them can resist - they uncover a conspiracy that reaches from the cliffs of Whitmore to the highest levels of power. But the closer they get to the truth, the more dangerous the town becomes. Someone is watching. Someone is following. And someone will do anything to make sure the secrets of Heron Cliff stay buried - even if it means burying them too.
Some truths are worth dying for. Some loves are worth coming back for.
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