All The Write Stuff: Angels Around Us

Angels Around Us

Heaven's Torment Book 1

by Victoria Liiv

Genre: Psychological Women's Fiction, Contemporary Romance

After falling out of the sky- quite literally- with an airplane, Amber goes though life simply surviving from week to week. Her traumatic experience keeps on haunting her day and night, but mostly at night, and it seems there's no way out. Nothing left to try for. If life is only a torture, why keep on going?

The answer is simple: Adriaan.

The man has managed to get through her defences and keeps her hope alive. He's the reason the get out of bed in the morning. He's the reason to push through the terror encompassing her. He's also her therapist. A new fear surfaces past the trauma: confessing her feelings for him.

Adriaan couldn't possibly love her back. Not only because relationships between a therapist and their patient are not allowed, but also because she's damaged.

Keeping her obsession secret draws Amber closer to Huub. He's nice. He's successful. He's good in bed. But he's not Adriaan.

Amber struggles through life, holding onto a small spark of hope and the love she keeps on running from.

Excerpt

“What would you like to talk about today?” he asks when he looks up from his notebook. There it is: the question.
“I want to talk about the airplane,” I reply, looking away from him.
“Okay, Amber.” The easiness from his voice is gone as if he is dreading this conversation as much as I am. “You were going to the airport with your sister,” Adriaan recounts.
“Yes, I was. She dropped me off at the ‘kiss and fly’ zone. Getting through security was no trouble; my luggage was taken by the woman at check-in and sent directly to the plane. I only had a small bag with me and a neck pillow. I was early, so the waiting area close to where my flight was going out from was quite empty, but after a while … an older American woman sat across from me. They … they like to talk, Americans. She was telling me how her daughter lived in Amsterdam, and she was going … that she would visit her. How she’d never been outside of the USA before, but there was a first time for everything.
“When the boarding started, it was a lot busier. A guy in front of me in the queue had a skateboard strapped to his backpack. A woman with two young children was trying to find their passports while one of them was pulling her skirt. A couple … So many people, Adriaan. So many … so many lives.”

All you need to know about Angels Around Us:
- written in first person present (have to note it since some people despise this)
- falling for the therapist (forbidden love)
- a slow burn romance
- a healing journey from panic attacks and trauma
- an emotional support dog Angel
- it is Amber's emotional journey first and foremost and romance second. An emotional connection that grows over time. It is not a smutty romance
- it covers several darker topics that can be triggering.

TRIGGER WARNINGS:

This book contains darker topics of life among which is living with trauma, anxiety, emotional abuse, self-harm, and abortion. If you are disturbed by any of that subject matter, then this book may not be for you.

If you find any more triggers I should mention while reading the book, let me know.

"There’s always a light at the end of the tunnel."

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Book Links:
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Book Trailer:

https://youtu.be/NNLxLiV6yPE

About the Author

Victoria Liiv is a writer, reader, nature lover and traveller at heart. She has been travelling through magical worlds since a very young age and wants more than anything to share the wonder with everyone else eager to escape from all things mundane. Let it be a magical adventure through slowly darkening Earth or a soul crushing fight for survival and love while the world burns. Sometimes all it takes is a little bit of romance.

She self published her debut novel Through Hell & Highwater in 2020 when the pandemics keeping her isolated gave her the reason to follow her dream of becoming an author. She hasn’t looked back since.

Her second novel, Afterworld: Road to Redemption, released September, 2022.

With many more ideas and characters keeping her awake at night this is only the beginning of her writing career.

In her everyday life she found the magic in her partner, who gave her courage to move out of Estonia, the country she was born in, to an equally small but more known The Netherlands.

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