Velvet Scars

<p><strong>VELVET SCARS: THE OMNIBUS COLLECTION</strong><br><em>Kisses That Cut · The Bride Who Lied · Love Stitched in Shadows</em></p><p>Some people heal and then fall in love.<br>These ones try to do both at the same time.</p><p>In <strong>Velvet Scars</strong> love doesn't arrive because anyone is ready.<br>It arrives in the middle of unfinished grief family drama old shame and silent wars nobody talks about out loud.</p><p>This omnibus gathers three full-length novels from the <strong>Velvet Scars</strong> world-three different couples one thread running through all of them:<br><em>I am broken in ways I don't know how to explain... but I still want to be loved.</em></p><p><strong>KISSES THAT CUT</strong><br>They meet at the wrong time in the middle of emotional wreckage neither of them has fully cleaned up.<br>Their chemistry isn't gentle; it's sharp defensive full of jokes that hide fear. Every kiss feels like a choice: stay safe... or risk bleeding again.</p><p><strong>THE BRIDE WHO LIED</strong><br>There are things she didn't say before she said I do.<br>There are things he pretended not to notice because loving her felt easier than asking hard questions.<br>When the truth finally tears through the pretty surface of their marriage they have to decide: was it all a lie or is this the first honest chapter of their story?</p><p><strong>LOVE STITCHED IN SHADOWS</strong><br>Two people carrying different kinds of loss moving through life like they are made of thin glass.<br>They are not each other's cure. They are not each other's therapist.<br>But in the small rituals-sharing food late-night messages quiet laughter after a long day-they start to stitch something soft and real between them right in the middle of their shadows.</p><p>Across all three books you'll find:</p><ul><li>characters who mess up apologise badly and try again</li><li>families that are tender one day and exhausting the next</li><li>love that looks like making tea showing up on time listening properly</li><li>arguments that leave both people shaking-but also more honest than they've ever been</li></ul><p><strong>Velvet Scars</strong> is not about perfect healing or neat happy-ever-afters where nobody flinches anymore.<br>It's about the version of love where you still have triggers still have bad days still sometimes want to run-but you stay. You talk. You try.</p><p>If you've ever loved someone while you were still learning how to love yourself...<br>if you've ever felt too complicated too tired too damaged for romance...<br>these stories were written with you in mind.</p><p>Come as you are.<br>Bring your history.<br>The pages are thick enough to hold it.</p>