Author's Note
Before you step into Whitby, into The Tin Heart and The Midnight Menagerie, I want to be honest with you: this is not a soft book.
Cracked Doll was born from wanting to write about fear — the kind we carry in our bodies long after the moment that caused it has passed — and about the strange, complicated ways we let people close enough to touch it. Ophelia's story deals with grief, trauma, addiction, and control, and Rhys is not a safe man by any conventional measure. This is a dark romance, and I've written it as one, without softening the edges that make it dark.
Please read the content warnings before you begin, and take care of yourself first. If any of these themes are difficult for you, that's not a failure of the reader — it's simply not the right time for this book, and that's okay.
For everyone else — welcome to the carnival. I hope you don't look away.
— sexpun








