Dedication:

For those who haven't found their place yet:

keep looking, it may be where you least expect it.

This book is for the Open Novella Contest (ONC 2023), and here are the prompts that I will be using: (the following may contain spoilers, so please proceed with caution.)

15. Three women. Three secrets. Three tangled lives. (This is the main prompt that I will be using, but I have slightly deviated from it by making one of my characters nonbinary)

33. They had their arrow aimed at their target's back, a perfect shot despite the crowded ballroom. Taking a deep, steadying breath, they pulled the bowstring taught and prepared to let the arrow fly. But then their target turned and looked directly at them, finding them in the waves as if they'd known they were there all along. The target winked.

69. I had a marvelous time ruining everything. - Taylor Swift

Content Warnings: (This is just a general description of sensitive themes that will be in the book, I will include specific things in chapters where they apply.)

- Kn!ves and other we@pons
- Cr!me
- S3nsory Ov3rlo@d and p@nic @ttacks
- @ttempted Murd3r

Let me know if there is something else you would like to be warned about.

Thank you so much for reading! Enjoy :)