Fall. Shatter. Rise. We both know how this will end (that this will end) and you try to make it easier for me by protecting me from your love (or is it really the absence of?) but you are my first book. Don't let the blank pages fool you, It's already written. (We both know how this will end) When Ophelia's husband fell chronically ill in his early 30s, she found herself sacrificing her identity to become his caretaker. Fall. Shatter. Rise. follows Ophelia as her loneliness drives her into the arms of another; it examines the raw pain of the heartache that follows and its resolution as she finally reclaims her own identity. This collection is for the brokenhearted, the lost, the sacrificed, for anyone who had to rebuild an identity from fragments of an old life.