Blue only wanted to clear his name, not hook a brooding detective, but when sparks fly hotter than a Portuguese summer, resisting temptation becomes the hardest puzzle to solve of all.
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Get to know my Character! Link to The Defects: Cassen Reneau is below!
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Hey all! My book The Defects: Cassen Reneau is out, and I was wondering if anyone wanted to read it for free. I’ll limit it to about 10 people.
And hey, if you like it, I’d love to hear about it while I’m staring at the moon or enjoying my T-Pop.
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Her story moves toward something larger than survival, toward the question of what it means to protect what remains when so much has already been lost, and the cost to stand for people who have been told they should not exist.
The Defects- tinyurl.com/59vhwe4x
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The people who follow her understand that in ways others cannot.
They have seen what she is willing to give for them, the sacrifices she does not speak about, the way she places herself between them and whatever is coming.
She simply earned their loyalty. (+)
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But the truth is that she feels every loss, every person, every life that has passed through her hands and her care.
She carries them with her, not loudly, not openly, but in a way that never leaves, in a way that shapes every choice she makes. (+)
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To those who don’t know her, she can seem distant, almost as if nothing reaches her at all.
She rarely cries, rarely lets anything surface in a way that can be easily understood, and that quiet control often reads as something colder than it truly is. (+)
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By the time she was twelve, she was already leading others, already making decisions that carried more weight than someone her age should ever have to hold.
There was no space for hesitation, no time to become anything other than what was needed. (+)
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What that kind of loss does to a person is not always visible.
Shadoe does not break in ways others can see. She does not fall apart where anyone can witness it.
She learned how to remain steady, even when there was nothing steady left in her world. (+)
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Loss is not something distant to her nor something she only understands in passing.
She lost her entire family, her entire clan, & there was no one left to share that weight, no one left to carry it with her, so it became something she learned to hold on her own (+)
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Shadoe was raised to be a warrior because in their world, people like her must exist.
From a young age, she learned how to survive, how to defend herself and others, and how to stand her ground in a world that never offered her another option. (+)
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And into our last Protagonist- Shadoe Hunter
Where Cassen is the mind and Sunny is the heart, Shadoe is the body, the one who moves when something must be done, even when no one else is ready to. (+)
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This book is only the beginning of his story.
The way he carries pain that never fully leaves, and how it shapes him, doesn’t end here.
In the next book, you’ll begin to see his choices more clearly… and why he makes them.
The Defects... tinyurl.com/59vhwe4x
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Sunny is loyal in a way that isn’t loud or easily noticed.
He stays with people, even in the quiet moments, even when there isn’t anything he can fix.
He listens, he holds space for them, and in his own way, he keeps them from feeling like they’re alone. (+)
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He carries scars, both seen and unseen.
Not as something he shows, but as something that simply exists, a quiet reminder of what he has endured and what he has survived.
They are part of him, but they are not all that he is. (+)
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The way he speaks is different.
He doesn’t always describe things the way others would; instead, he uses more descriptive words and gentler phrases.
It’s how he makes sense of a world that has never been kind to him. (+)
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Sunny is empathetic.
He notices when something is wrong before it’s ever said, and people find themselves drawn to him without always understanding why.
He becomes a place where others set their pain down, even if just for a little while. (+)
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He has lost the people he loved, over and over, until he was completely alone.
He isn't able to talk about it much, the pain too raw no matter the time that has passed, but it lives in him, in the way he carries himself, in the quiet spaces he never quite fills. (+)
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Sunny grew up in a place that was never meant to be kind.
A place where people were controlled, broken down, and then erased.
He survived it, but survival doesn’t mean leaving it behind.
Some things stay with you, whether you want them to or not. (+)
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Delving more into my characters-
Where Cassen is the mind of this story, Sunny is the heart/soul.
He is the one who feels everything, even when he wishes he didn’t. (+)
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The thing about loving as fiercely as Cassen does…
is that it always asks something of you in return.
And sooner or later, she will have to decide how much she’s willing to give.
You can find The Defects here: tinyurl.com/59vhwe4x
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Cassen Reneau is not someone who was made to move through her world easily.
She is someone who knows what she is able to carry, what she is willing to protect, and what she is no longer willing to accept.
And that is where her story truly begins. (+)
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Her story moves through queerness, survival, & the weight of caring in a world that doesn’t make space for it.
It asks what it means to love people when that love puts you at risk, and what it means to see clearly in a place that depends on people looking away. (+)
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She is the kind of genius that appears once in a generation. Sometimes several generations, and once she starts putting those pieces together, once she begins to understand what she’s really seeing…
There is no undoing it. (+)
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Cassen represents the mind, but not just because she questions things.
She is a scientist, and the way her mind works is rare in her world.
She sees patterns and connections others don’t, even when she doesn’t fully understand what she’s seeing yet. (+)
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What changes things for Cassen isn’t time.
It’s loss.
It’s watching someone she loved like a brother be taken from her in a brutal, public way.
After that, something in her shifts… and she can’t hold herself back the way she used to. (+)
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There are moments where she hesitates, and moments where she questions herself.
She has spent so long learning to stay within the lines that stepping outside of them doesn’t come easily.
But those moments don’t define where she ends up. (+)
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