Fault Lines

Name: Fault Lines
Author: Samantha Dies

178 pages

Fault Lines is an emotional exploration of love, loss, and the heart-wrenching choices that follow when everything you thought you knew about your life starts to crumble.

When the doctor tells me I’m infertile, my world shatters. The dream of raising children, of hearing little feet run through the house, evaporates in the span of twenty minutes. I thought that was the worst day of my life. But Cam, my husband—who wanted it even more than I did—promised we’d weather the storm together. We didn’t.

Instead, Cam spirals into a personal crisis, unable to cope with the pain of our unfulfilled dream. And despite my best efforts to be strong for both of us, I am powerless to keep him afloat. The next blow comes when he asks for an open marriage. I never imagined I’d hear those words, much less have to make a choice: Say no, and lose him completely—or say yes, and lose myself.

Reluctantly, I agree, telling myself that maybe this will fix things, that maybe this is how we’ll both find happiness again. But as Cam pulls further away, each night he spends with someone else takes a little more of me with it. I withdraw into silence, my world shrinking to the hours between his absences, until I take a job just to fill the void.

That’s when Nate enters my life—a man with a love for books, an infectious laugh, and a kindness that feels like sunlight breaking through storm clouds. With Nate, I find something I thought I’d lost: connection. But as the emotional distance between Cam and I widens, the pull between Nate and me becomes harder to ignore.

As love and betrayal intertwine, the ground beneath me begins to tremble, and the cracks in my life grow deeper. When everything I thought I understood comes crashing down, I must choose who to become—and who I can trust—to help pull me out of the rubble.

Fault Lines is a raw, heartbreaking look at the fragility of love and identity, the pain of unmet expectations, and the unexpected ways we find redemption—even in the most broken pieces of ourselves.

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