THE NOVELS OF HOLDEN RHOADE
BEAUTIFULLY RUINED
Some lives do not break all at once.
They change one choice, one mistake, one love, and one loss at a time.
Beautifully Ruined follows people who are complicated, imperfect, and still becoming who they are. These are stories about identity, desire, love, survival, and what happens when the life you built no longer fits the person you have become.
One life. Five books. Every choice leaves something behind.
Beautifully Ruined follows Claire through five books as ambition, love, desire, success, loss, and the choices she makes reshape the life she thought she wanted. Each novel carries her farther into the world she creates and closer to the question at the heart of the series: who is Claire when everything else is stripped away?
BOOK ONE
Claire came to Los Angeles chasing a dream and trying to escape the life she left behind. What she finds is a new identity, a new world, and choices that begin changing everything she thought she knew about herself.
When Everything Breaks
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BOOK TWO
When Everything Is Exposed
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Claire built a life the world thinks it understands. In Book Two, the boundaries between Claire and Madison Storm begin to collapse as love, ambition, fame, and the consequences of everything she has chosen become impossible to keep separate.
What is When Everything Breaks about?
When Everything Breaks follows Claire, a young woman who leaves Wisconsin for Los Angeles chasing a dream and trying to escape the life she left behind. As she builds a new life and becomes known as Madison Storm, success, love, desire, ambition, and the choices she makes begin changing how she sees herself. It is a story about identity, survival, reinvention, and the cost of becoming someone new.
Claire's story continues across five novels.
Books Three, Four, and Five are in development.
Who is Claire in When Everything Breaks?
Claire is the central character of the Beautifully Ruined series. She is talented, ambitious, deeply imperfect, and still carrying the effects of grief, family trauma, and the choices that shaped her before she ever reached Los Angeles. When Everything Breaks follows the beginning of her transformation and the growing distance between Claire and the woman the world comes to know as Madison Storm.