We all fall - just not the same way
Everybody carries aspects of Eve. Desire. Shame. Temptation. Blame.
Eve has spent her whole life trying to outrun a name that never felt like her own. But lately, it clings to her - heavy, inescapable - as though it's been waiting for her to become it.
In a sun-soaked coastal town where summer never seems to end, Eve and her closest friends live for long nights, loud music, and the illusion that everything is fine. But beneath the laughter, cracks are forming. Secrets simmer. Loyalties shift. And disappointment - sharp and relentless - threads its way through them all.
Eve once believed her faith would steady her. That it would keep her safe from becoming the very thing she feared. She was wrong.
Because when the truth finally surfaces, it doesn't just ask to be seen - it demands to be faced.
And not everyone will come out unscathed.
A Captivating Novel by
Rachel Lauchlan
About the Author
Born and bred in Wellington, Rachel Lauchlan has spent much of her life working as an NZSL interpreter, navigating meaning across language, silence, and expression. A mother of boys, she once believed writing belonged to other people. Not a reader by habit, she became, unexpectedly, a writer—drawn to stories that live in the margins of what can be said.
Her writing is shaped by a life marked by fracture and rebuilding, where endurance becomes ordinary and meaning is often made in the aftermath of what cannot be undone. It carries an awareness of loss, resilience, and the unseen weight people continue to carry, and a deep interest in how grace is extended, withheld, or quietly misunderstood.
This work lingers in the space between judgement and mercy, where people struggle to understand one another and where grace is neither simple nor evenly given. It asks quiet questions about how we see each other, how we decide who belongs, and what it might mean to hold others—and ourselves—with a little more room to be human.