The Girl They Blamed

I was just sixteen when Hurricane Haven swept away everything, leaving me an orphan clinging to wreckage.

Then, with kind hands, Ethan Harrison pulled me from the churning water, and his family became my beacon, my home.

For four years, they rebuilt my world, filling it with a love I hadn’t known since my own mother died, a future with Ethan by my side.

He gave me a compass necklace, promising, “So you always find your way. Our way.”

But that same night, our future shattered.

The Harrison house, once filled with light, became a tomb for thirteen souls, brutally murdered.