The Triad

From the Author of The Divorce & The Affair comes the seventh installment of The Relationship Quo Series

FREYA
I was the outsider in my family and friend groups. Abandonment wasn't new to me, especially with love.
Then my world collided with two men, complete opposites on the compass rose. All the stars in the sky or tarot cards in my hand couldn't prepare me for the secrets they carried nor the intense vacuum of their dynamic. Coming near their orbit was as dangerous as traveling too near a black hole. I craved rescue from the shallows before I met them, but I wasn't sure I could survive the depth they pulled me into.

NORTH
I'm the one who keeps broken things together. I protect what's mine. I made an oath to uphold the scales of justice, but I rig them when I must to shield those I love. I trust my animal instincts. That's why I knew the moment I met Freya that she would fit into the missing spaces between Seth and me. She would be the foundation for rebuilding the family I lost. I just needed them to see it.
I was supposed to be the anchor. But when the world started closing in from all sides, holding us together meant tearing myself apart.

SETH
I've been running on borrowed time and illusion for so long I'd forgotten what it felt like to want more than what power and money can give. I was the spark, the reckless liability, the one karmic justice was hunting. I shouldn't have let North hold me down. I shouldn't have let Freya in. But the pull between the three of us wasn't something I could resist.
When you're running from something, the rules are simple. Don't stop. This is our story, but it's unconventional, it's messy. Don't listen if you'd prefer to keep your hands clean.

THREE LIVES. ONE BOND.
The Rockies have weathered every external threat from the early dawn of time. They remain unmoved, but not untested. Sometimes nature is violent... sometimes it's peaceful. Sometimes it's both. The mountains are beautiful, and they bring you closer to the divine from atop their summits, but only the resilient, the ones whose energy mirrors the mountains themselves, get the privilege of the view. This is how we learned that.