"Karma was a bitch who took way too much pleasure in kicking me repeatedly in the nuts."

Returning from a family visit to meet his newborn granddaughter, Jon Walsh, lead singer of Torrent, decides to take the long route home to California. After about a week of travel, he finds himself exhausted while driving through the arid Arizona desert. Vision Lake offers the Skylark Inn as a last-minute spot to crash. If only Jon could figure out why the woman behind the counter is so skittish, the overly-religious owner keeps coming onto him . . .

. . . or why nobody leaves this place.

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RISE//REPEAT//REMAIN is a collection of interconnected short stories following Ryan and Michaela through the moments that decide whether love survives or falls apart.

The arguments that linger. The silence that cuts deeper than words. The kind of tension that refuses to stay contained.

Each story stands alone while building a larger portrait of a relationship shaped by miscommunication, desire, and the choice to stay. They pull apart. They come back. They try again.

Set outside of the Wider mythos, this self-contained collection delivers slow-burn tension, emotional intensity, and intimacy that lingers.

For readers who crave messy, character-driven romance where love isn’t easy, but it’s impossible to walk away from.

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