Absolution [h.s.]

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originally published: February 2020
originally completed: July 2021

***PLEASE READ***

10/23/25 update: Hi :) Bet you never thought you'd see me again!

I have gone back and forth on whether or not I should republish this story, as I have a lot of complicated feelings for it. When I originally wrote it, I was going through a lot in my life and writing was an outlet for all of that trauma. I think that comes through a lot in this story. I planned to edit this for publishing... and then changed my mind. Then I planned to edit it just to repost it here because I was truthfully embarrassed about a lot of the heavy content in this book. However, I'm trying really hard to stop caring what people on the internet think of a book that I wrote in the middle of a pandemic while dealing with trauma lol. I thought if I took it down, people would forget it, but that's simply not the case. You guys never forgot it and never stopped asking me to repost it. And that warms my heart, and makes me realize that I don't want to take it away from y'all.

So here she is, in her full, unedited glory! An extremely toxic, dark romance that has a lot of light and a lot of happy in it as well. I hope you guys continue to love and cherish her the way you always have. And if you re-read it and think "wow this shit is cringe" then WHATEVER! To be cringe is to be freeeeee!!! and I am freeing myself from this!

Love you lots.

p.s. I've been secretly writing a contemporary romance novel that stars Mad Max... we'll see if I make it anywhere with it ;)

Bloodletter. Everyone knows the name, but few know the man behind it. He's the most ruthless fighter in a local underground fight club, nicknamed for how often he makes his opponents bleed.

When Zara Clark, an ambitious writer for her college newspaper, gets assigned the fighter as her next featured piece-nothing will stop her from getting her story. Especially not the cold, arrogant, closed-off man himself.