L. H. Cosway

Life used to be simple. I was a city girl with humble dreams. Then Dylan O'Dea broke into my flat, held me against the wall and told me to stay quiet. It was like in the movies, where the universe zeros in on a single scene. I looked into his eyes and knew he was going to change me. For Dylan, the sky was always falling. He showed me how our world is a contradiction of beauty and ugliness. How we choose to ignore the awful and gloss over it with the palatable. How you need just a tiny drop of something unsavoury to create every great scent. Pretty deep for a pair of teenagers living in a block of council flats in inner city Dublin, right? Probably. But we weren't typical. We both had our obsessions. Mine was growing things, Dylan's was scent. He taught me how to use my nose, and I introduced him to the magic of flowers. I had no idea that one day he'd build an empire from what we started together. But before that, there was love and happiness, tragedy and epic heartbreak... My name is Evelyn Flynn and I'm going to tell you about the crack in everything. A Crack in Everything is Book #1 in L.H. Cosway's Cracks duet.

A Crack in Everything

Lover of Romance 

“I found a book on Freud in Yvonne’s collection. He had this theory that when we see the things we dislike in ourselves in others, we hate on it.”

Dylan struck me as the type to hate fiercely, but also to love just as fiercely. He felt all of life’s emotions with everything he had in him, and there was a captivating sort of appeal about that.

“You’re sunshine, Evelyn, and there’s nothing but clouds around here.”

We have no gardens to sit in, nothing pleasant to look at. Just concrete and dust and noise and dreams so big that one day we might crack in half from trying to hold them all in.”

And just like a rock hurtling off that very edge, I fell for him hard.

“Because I can only see my dreams clearly when I look through you first.”

I loved Dylan O’Dea. And probably would forever.

“Well, they have to find out for themselves whether it’s true. You can travel to the ends of the earth, but you’ll still be you.” She tapped the side of my head. “You have to face the challenges in here before you’ll find happiness out there,” she went on, gesturing around herself.

“This isn’t the end for us. I promise. This is just the in-between. I’ll find you in the after.”

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