About Hope

Hope Everly is a dark romance author, she writes raw, emotional romance about trauma, healing, and love that lingers, stories that break you before they rebuild you. Hope is an Australian author, who began writing in 2017, on an animated story app, as a way to escape the realities of chronic illness and found my voice in characters who are broken but brave. After a breast cancer diagnosis in 2024, Hope returned to writing with a renewed passion and a promise to tell stories that make readers feel deeply. Wicked Games is Hope's debut novel, born from her own journey of healing and hope. When she's not writing, she can be found daydreaming new plot twists, drinking coke zero, or doing fun activities with my family.

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Releasing May 2026

Beneath The Ashes. Book 4 in the Rise Of The Broken Heart Series. Some damage isn’t loud. It lives in flinches. In silence. In survival. Willow and Noah escaped their past—but they didn’t leave it behind. When the truth finally surfaces, it shatters everything Braxton thought he understood. The bruises. The instinct to protect. The unspoken bond forged in pain. And the devastating reality that even now… they still defend the one who hurt them. Braxton knows how to fight. But this? This isn’t something he can fix with strength. Because love can protect. Love can hold. But it can’t always undo what’s been carved into someone. As old wounds resurface and the weight of trauma threatens to pull them under, they must decide if healing is possible… or if some scars are meant to stay. Beneath the Ashes is a haunting, emotional continuation of the Rise of the Broken Heart series—where love is tested, truth is exposed, and survival comes at a cost.

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Rise Of The Broken Heart Series

11 Book Series

Rise of the Broken Heart is a raw, emotionally charged dark contemporary romance series spanning eleven interconnected books, told across ten evolving points of view on the same timeline as lives collide, fracture, and rebuild. At its core, this series explores survival, trauma, loyalty, and the brutal reality of loving when you’ve never been shown how. Each character carries their own wounds, some visible, some buried, and as their stories unfold, those wounds shape the choices they make, the people they become, and the love they fight for. What begins as Willow’s story of survival and self-worth expands into something far bigger, a found family bound by pain, protection, and an unspoken promise: no one gets left behind. But this series was written for a reason. As a reader, I grew tired of investing in a slow burn, watching two people fight their way to each other, only for their relationship to be wrapped up in a single chapter or epilogue. After everything they endured, I wanted more. I wanted to see what happened after they chose each other. How they love. How they fight. How they break… and rebuild together. How they fit into family, into chaos, into real life. So, I wrote the series I wanted to read. This isn’t just about falling in love, it’s about what comes next. Across the series, you’ll follow intertwined journeys through multiple perspectives on the same timeline including Willow, Braxton, Noah, Harley, Finn, and others whose voices deepen the world as it grows darker… and stronger. This isn’t a soft romance. It’s messy. Confronting. Addictive. It’s about broken people learning how to love without destroying each other. And the truth that even the most fractured hearts… can rise.

Wicked Game Series Characters

Willow Anderson

I’ve made a lot of bad choices… but every single one kept me alive.” Hey, I’m Willow. I’ve never had the kind of life people write love stories about. Raised in the foster system, I learned early that no one was coming to save me and I stopped waiting. Survival became my story. I’ve made mistakes, taken risks, trusted the wrong people…...

Blake Johnston

“Perception is everything. Control is power. And love? Love is earned.” Hello, I’m Blake. On the surface, I have it all together, successful, well-spoken, respected. I’ve built my life around order, discipline, and results. Chaos? I don't do chaos. Which made Willow... an unexpected complication. She came into my world all sharp...

Braxton Saunders

“I never planned on falling for her. Hell, I didn’t even see it coming. But once I did… there was no going back.” Name’s Braxton. I’m not the guy you bring home to your mum, not unless she’s got a thing for tattoos, scars, and a past with more shadows than light. I’ve made mistakes. I’ve been angry. I’ve hurt people. But I’ve also...

Noah Smith

“People see a kid. What they don’t see is everything I’ve survived.” Hey. I’m Noah. I’m seven. Almost eight. I like basketball, pancakes, and pretending I don’t care about anything, but I do. I care more than I probably should. Especially about Willow. She’s not my real sister, not by blood. But she’s mine. She’s always been mine...

Dying Wish

Four broken souls. One dying wish. A promise that changes everything.

When Joshua dies, his last request isn’t for himself. It’s for the friends he loved. Lexi, Lucas, Maddie, and Nelly swore they’d keep meeting, no matter how much life tried to pull them apart. What started as a fragile vow made in grief becomes the thread holding them together long after he’s gone. Each of them carries scars they’d rather hide: regrets that haunt, dreams that feel out of reach, families that broke them, choices that nearly destroyed them. But when silence and distance would be easier, it’s Joshua’s dying wish that forces them to show up for each other, again and again. Raw, emotional, and deeply human, Dying Wish is a story of love, grief, and survival. It’s about broken people finding strength in one another and discovering that sometimes, the promises forged in loss are the ones that teach us how to live.

Uncharted Waters

Contemporary Romance

She believes you only get one great love. He’s built his life pretending love is a game and didn't really exist. Gabriella Cunningham boards a luxury cruise with one goal: survive four weeks of sunshine, cocktails, and forced fun without letting anyone too close. Her heart belongs to a man she lost and she’s learned the hard way what happens when you let yourself feel again. Dean Matthews has mastered charm the way others master survival. Behind the bar or under the stars, his grin gets him what he wants, attention, tips, and the occasional warm body in his bed. Feelings? Those are for people who plan to stay. Then Gabby walks into his orbit. She doesn’t flirt. She doesn’t fall for his lines. And when she looks at him, it feels like she’s seeing through him, straight to the parts he’s spent years avoiding. As the ship sails through endless blue, sparks ignite where they shouldn’t. Boundaries blur. Hearts falter. And one kiss changes everything. But some loves leave scars. Some truths arrive too late. And some journeys don’t end when the ship docks. This contemporary romance is a slow-burn romance about grief, temptation, and the terrifying moment when you realise the heart doesn’t care about the rules you set to protect it. Sometimes, the most dangerous waters… are the ones you never meant to sail.

Book Reviews

Jazmin Jordan-Santiago - Goodreads

A powerful and gritty story. It was so moving too! Everly wove a spell of compassion for her FMC Willow, and an excitement for Willow to find love. It was such a compelling and life changing read

Abbey

If you love drama. True love and everything else then check out Hope’s book

Miracle

This book is gripping, heartfelt, and emotionally daring. It doesn’t shy away from exploring darkness, emotional pain, mental health, betrayal, violence, but it balances that with connection, vulnerability, desire, and hope. It’s not just about love. It’s about healing, resilience, and the ache of wanting to be seen and understood.

Margaux Paris

I really enjoyed this book from start to finish. The author does such a great job of pulling you into Willow’s world and making you feel every bit of her struggle. She’s a character who has been let down so many times that you can’t help but root for her as she tries to find her footing and make choices that will finally serve her...

Read By Hearts

Some books don’t just tell a story, they make you feel like you’re walking hand in hand with the characters, carrying their pain, their hope & their fight. Wicked Games was exactly that kind of experience for me. From the very first chapter, I was pulled into Willow’s world—a place that is raw, chaotic & heavy with struggles, yet somehow...

Diana

I loved reading Hope’s book. The way she brought the characters to life is incredible, their emotions feel so real that you can’t help but feel them too. She’s done an amazing job showing the characters’ development and making them feel authentic. The dynamics between Willow and Blake/Braxton are engaging and add so much depth to the...