Katherine Owen

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THE IMAGE BREAKER – The Love Story Continues ~ Hollywood Hearts 2

THE IMAGE BREAKER – The Love Story Continues ~ FAME & INFAMY  2

THE IMAGE BREAKER – The Love Story Continues ~ FAME &INFAMY 2

Title: THE IMAGE BREAKER

Series: FAME & INFAMY, Book 2

Please note: this is the second book in the Hollywood Hearts Series. 

The Image Breaker (FAME & INFAMY, #2)

Fame is an image—until it breaks.

Roman Lysander became Hollywood’s favorite beautiful disaster by making chaos look effortless. Fame, scandal, charm, damage—he knew how to survive all of it.

Then Isla Ryder crashed into his life.

Forty-eight hours was all it took for Roman to fall hard, propose fast, and believe, for one reckless moment, that love might be stronger than the story the world had already written for him.

Then Isla collapses.

By the time their whirlwind engagement goes viral, Isla is fighting for her life in the ICU, and Roman learns the one lesson celebrity never taught him: money can open doors, power can move people, but neither can save the person who has become your whole world.

If Isla doesn’t survive, there won’t be a wedding.

There won’t be them.

When Isla wakes, she is no longer the woman who could control every room, every headline, every version of herself. Her body has betrayed her. Her future has changed. And the man waiting beside her refuses to let go, even as the spotlight closes in.

But love that detonates overnight still has to live in daylight.

Roman wants to protect her. Isla wants to reclaim herself. Hollywood wants the fairytale, the scandal, the weakness, the proof that even beautiful things can be broken for public consumption.

Because in their world, devotion is a headline, survival is a scandal, and choosing each other might cost them everything.

The Image Breaker is Book Two in Fame & Infamy, an emotionally intense one-couple saga. Isla and Roman’s story continues across the series and should be read in order.

Reading order:
The Image Maker
The Image Breaker
The Image Keeper
The Image Taker
The Image Betrayer
The Image Master

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SERIES READING ORDER:

The Image Maker – FAME & INFAMY ~ 1

The Image Breaker – FAME & INFAMY ~ 2

The Image Keeper –  FAME & INFAMY ~ 3  

The Image Taker -FAME & INFAMY~ 4 (Summer 2026 release)

The Image Betrayer – FAME & INFAMY ~5 (Summer 2026 release)

The Image Master – FAME & INFAMY ~6 (Fall 2026 release)

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"You know what they say about air and water when it comes to fire, don’t you?” she asks.
Now, I’m curious. She hasn’t spoken for the last ten minutes of the drive. “What?”
“Too much air blows out the fire. Too much water destroys it.”
I nod trying to determine what she’s really comparing us to. “The idea would be to keep the flame going, right. For years?” She nods. “Like a relationship. Like a marriage.” She cringes at the word marriage. Noted. “So you need the air—to stay constant—to fan the flames of the fire, and you know, grasshopper,” I smile at her and catch sight of the corners of her mouth turning slightly upward in response to the endearment, “a hot enough fire will burn water, so you have to be careful with the water too.”
“That I do know,” she says softly. “So that’s the truth about air and water.” She sighs deep.
“Which is?”
“It’s hard to maintain the balance to keep the fire going. You have to fan the flames without putting it out with too much water. But too little water will burn the fire right up. Too much fire. Too much destruction. We’re out of control.”
“You’re talking in circles,” I say.
“No. That’s us,” she says with certainty."— Katherine Owen

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Riding With the Queen
The Time Traveler's Wife
The Year of Fog
Normal People Don't Live Like This
April & Oliver
The Truth About Delilah Blue
The Gargoyle
Faking It
Blueberry Truth
Falling Under
Small As A Mustard Seed
Strange Flesh
Easy
Slammed
Gone Girl
Reason to Breathe
Barely Breathing
Kindle Single: Injured Reserves
The Sea of Tranquility


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