LOVE, ROSALYN

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“I have grown up very different from the woman I thought I would be in that fantasy. The woman who always says yes.”

Schuyler College, a prestigious liberal arts institution in the mountains of Vermont, has been Rosalyn’s home for four years now. Except it’s not really home anymore, not without Toby. Toby, the boy with laugh lines around his eyes. Toby, who promised that they would always be best friends, no matter what. Toby, her first love. Now, he won’t even meet her eye, and it’s all Rosalyn’s fault. Or is it…? 

As Rosalyn continues to unearth their love story, she cannot deny the bloodstains. Her memory is riddled with liberties that Toby should never have taken with her. And even though she is utterly brainwashed into believing the best in Toby, she cannot deny her burning feelings toward their very attractive friend, Milo, who has always treated her with nothing but respect…

A tale in letters: Love, Rosalyn exposes some of the more messy impacts of sexual assault on survivors, especially those who once cared deeply for their aggressor. Her impaired perspective begs the question: Is Rosalyn really in love with Toby, or is her trauma guiding her to believe that?

A story of doubt, fury, and hope. A genre-bending social and psychological commentary disguised as a romance.

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50% of all author royalties will be donated to the Planned Parenthood Action Fund. 

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