It’s been a decade since Merritt Valentine’s peak as a celebrated singer-songwriter… and her subsequent career-ending mental breakdown. Since then, she’s abandoned the glitz of Los Angeles to move in with her sister, Olivia, in the sleepy Colorado ski town of Crested Peak, hoping to heal her lingering emotional wounds of the spotlight. Life in Crested Peak would be uncomplicated if not for Merritt’s inconvenient crush on the local contractor and handyman, Nikolaos Petrakis. Niko is disarmingly handsome and too kind-hearted to ever be right for the complex and prickly… Read more.
Trigger and Content Warnings
- Slut-shaming & mentions of homophobia (secondary characters)
- Minor fatphobia & mention of weight gain
- Parental abandonment & familial estrangement
- Statutory rape recounted (protagonist was 14-years-old and her sibling’s brother was ~roughly~ 19-years-old)
- Workplace sexual harassment of a teen mentioned
- Divorce & infidelity recounted (the protagonist’s ex-husband cheated on her, and she cheated in previous relationships)
- Panic attacks recounted
- Dissociation, Borderline Personality Disorder & Complex PTSD (protqagonist)
- Protagonist in recovery for substance and alcohol addictions after an attempted suicide by overdose in the past, including on-page & recounted drug use & abuse and alcohol consumption & abuse
- Unplanned teen pregnancy recounted & mentions of a pregnant secondary character
- Emesis
- Death of a father mentioned
- Animal death mentioned (pet cat)
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