It Was Us Kindle Edition

It Was UsA slow-burn, emotionally charged novel about family, love, and the secrets that shape us.Ella is determined.Charlie is watching.And Austin is everything.IT WAS US is a beautifully spun narrative revealing the curated life of Ella Buchanan. She chooses to defer a University scholarship for a growing relationship with her half-sister Demi's close friend, Austin. She's soon telling herself fallacies dressed as a desired life. Ella's oldest and closest friend, Charlie, recognizes the suffering in the decisions that change the course of her life, but doesn't voice it. Charlie and those closest to Ella watch devastating moments that become destructive.Told across time, IT WAS US is a psychological novel exploring love, loyalty, and the slow accumulation of moments that shape emotional trauma and denial. Ella's story traces how complex family dynamics, partnerships, and motherhood can become both shelter and constraint and how difficult it can be to tell the difference.With passionate restraint and precision, Canadian Author Elizabeth Altus gives voice to silence itself and what it asks of those who carry it. Read more