Everything You Offered

Five years. One ring. A thousand ways to burn it all down.
Cal Lithgow was ready for forever. At twenty-four, he had the perfect rhythm, the perfect shared apartment, and a velvet box hidden in his pocket containing a promise for Hailey Connors. But when the night of the proposal turns into the day of the breakup, Cal’s world doesn’t just fracture—it dissolves.
Desperate to escape the silence of his empty life and the pitying eyes of his friends, Cal finds himself in the orbit of Sarah Matthews. Striking, forty-one, and Hailey’s aunt, Sarah is a woman trapped in the “gilded cage” of a sterile marriage to her cold, clinical husband, Aaron.
What begins as a moment of shared grief quickly ignites into a steamy, transgressive affair. For Cal, Sarah isn’t just a rebound; she is the maturity and certainty he was denied. For Sarah, Cal is the spark of vitality she thought she had lost.
But as the passion turns into a feverish obsession, the boundaries of family and morality begin to blur. Cal is no longer content with being a secret, and Aaron is no longer just a bystander. In a world of high-stakes domestic secrets, Cal will learn that the “adult” life he craved comes with a devastating price.
When obsession overrides reason, there are no clean breaks—only scorched earth.
A dark, psychological descent into the heart of displacement, Everything You Offered is a visceral exploration of the damage we do when we refuse to let go.