Tragedy ✔️

I - Author's Note

I │ AUTHOR'S NOTE

I.I │ SYNOPSIS

Tragedy can happen to anyone, anytime and anywhere, and the saddest part about that truth is that tragedy is inevitable... unavoidable.

No one can prevent a natural disaster from happening. No one can prevent death from knocking on their doorstep-if it's an accident, or a sickness-it cannot be prevented, and it cannot be avoided.

You never know on which day tragedy will come knocking on your front door. You never know who it would strike next-if it would be you, or someone else, or someone who is very close to you.

The thing is, with tragedy, it doesn't ask questions before it strikes.

It just does.

River and Sophia were two people who experienced the same tragedy: loss, but their stories were very different from each other, but they shared the same pain of losing someone they loved, someone who was close to them.

And now, suffering the aftermath of their tragedies-living with the guilt, the regret, and the grief of losing someone that was close to them, they have to try to overcome everything, before their tragedy ruins their lives forever.

But will it bring them together or would it just be another terrible tragedy?

I.II │ TRIGGER WARNINGS

This book will contain the following:

• strong language
• mature themes such as teen drinking, mentions of suicide
• the mention of abuse
• fighting
• anxiety and panic attacks
• PTSD (POST TRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER)
• and lastly violence

Please DO NOT read Tragedy if the above mentioned themes will affect you in any way. I will place a warning on top of each chapter so you will know what to look out for.

I.III │ DISCLAIMER

This is a work of fiction. Names, places, locales and businesses, incidents are all products of the author's imagination or used in a fictitious manner.

Any resemblance to any persons, living or dead, is purely coincidental.

I.IIII │ EPIGRAPH

"sometimes tragedy
brings people together"

I.V │ TIMELINE

FIRST DRAFT: 31 December 2020
COMPLETION OF FIRST DRAFT: 10 May 2021
FINAL & EDITED DRAFT: 15 NOVEMBER 2022

I.VI │ MILESTONES & AWARDS

Won 3rd place in the leaves awards
Won 2nd place in the stardazzle awards
Won 1st place in the hall of fame awards
Won 1st place in the lovely awards

9K reads: 16 October 2021
15K reads: 30 November 2021
20K reads: 14 December 2021
50K reads: 16 March 2022
60K reads: 28 March 2022
99K reads: 20 July 2022
150k reads: 28 Oct 2022

has been featured on Wattpad's Stories Undiscovered reading list called "tales of the heart" - 01 April 2022.

I.VII │ HIGHEST RANKINGS

1 in Depression: 18 October 2021
18 in Realistic Fiction: 20 October 2021
3 in Support Group: 20 October 2021
2 in Realistic Fiction: 02 November 2021

I. VIII │ DEDICATION

"to the people who go through tragedy but still keep their heads held high"

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This book supports: HeartbrokenProject

I DO NOT OWN ANY PICTURES IN THIS BOOK, ONLY THE EDITS.