The Things We Don't Survive
A dark romance by Darah Wren. Out October 20.
The Things We Don't Survive
A dark romance by Darah Wren. Out October 20.
🖤 To my sick girly who thinks she can fix him. Yes, you can.🖤
Some people get lost in the mountains.
He went up there to disappear.
Vera Colton drove three hours into a blizzard to fall apart where no one could see her. She found him instead — half-buried in the snow, barely breathing, and not fighting it.
She's a trauma nurse. Pulling people back is the one thing she's never learned how to stop doing. Even when they beg her to let go.
He gives her one name. Cain. Nothing under it.
Not the mask he won't take off.
Not what's haunting him.
Not what it would cost her to see his real face.
Four days. One cabin. One storm with no way down the mountain — long enough to fall for a man built entirely out of lies.
Not long enough to outrun the truth coming for him.
The one with her name on it, too.
THE THINGS WE DON'T SURVIVE is a dark, dual-POV, snowed-in slow burn about the lies that keep us breathing — and the reckless want to let someone in anyway.
He was never safe.
She was never looking for safe.
Standalone · Dual POV · Guaranteed HEA
🔖 Full content warnings inside.
Snowed in with a stranger
One cabin, one road out, and a storm that decides how long they stay in it.
The most famous face nobody has seen
Eight years behind a mask, written into his contract. She picked it up anyway.
HEA guaranteed
It is dark and it is going to hurt, but you get your happily ever after. I would not do that to us.
Meet them
Cain
Masked. Famous. Unreachable by design. He has not let a single person close in eight years, and he told her he was dangerous before she ever asked. He meant it — just not in the way she thought.
Vera
An ER nurse who does not scare easily, has seen considerably worse than him, and is deeply unimpressed by the brooding. She found him in the snow and refused to lose him. Everything after that is her fault, and she knows it.