
Oh, Sasha. The way this girl has stolen my heart.
You first met her as the villain in The Jilted Lovers Club. She’s the reason Ashton was jilted in the first place. She left him and their infant daughter in the middle of the night without telling anyone where she was going. She stole money from her parents, a decision that made them lose their business, and was almost the end of Lahoma Springs. If it hadn’t been for Jordy, Ashton’s new wife, the heart of Lahoma might have been lost.
And it all traces back to Sasha.
Now in The Lost Lovers Club, she’s back. Four years after she left, Sasha returns with nowhere else to go, every bridge burned behind her, carrying the weight of mistakes that can’t be undone. Her plan is simple in theory and impossible in practice: make amends. Apologize. Take responsibility. Do whatever it takes to prove she isn’t the same woman who ran.
What she doesn’t plan for is Griffin.
Griff was her first friend. Her best friend. The boy who grew up beside her and the man whose story with her never really got the chance to begin. He’s the first person to see her when she crosses back into town limits, stranded on the side of the road with a broken-down car and a flu that threatens to knock her flat. He’s the one who brings her home and nurses her back to health, fully aware that the town sees her as its enemy and that loving her could cost him everything.
But villains rarely get to tell their own stories.
No one in Lahoma saw the cracks forming beneath Sasha’s surface before she left. The shame she couldn’t name. The quiet unraveling. The fear that she was failing as a mother before she ever had the chance to become one. Leaving didn’t feel brave or selfish in the moment—it felt like survival.
Now she has to live with the aftermath. She has to look Ashton in the eye and face the man she hurt. She has to ask for the chance to know the daughter who barely remembers her, and who calls another woman “mom.” She has to walk the same sidewalks where people whisper her name. And maybe hardest of all, she has to mend the fracture she left in her most treasured friendship with a man who’s guarding his heart.
Sasha’s story isn’t about erasing the past. It’s about standing in it, seeking redemption, and choosing to stay when running would be easier.
In The Lost Lovers Club, Sasha Felix finally gets to tell her side of the story, and it’s far more complicated than anyone thought.
The Lost Lovers Club is free with Kindle Unlimited. Read it here.
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