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Bill Alive
Bill Alive
Writer. Thinker. Goofball.
Nov 21, 2025 2 min read

New Release! 📚 Crags in the Sunset

What happens next when love doesn’t conquer all?

Crags in the Sunset

An Unrequited Love Story

From BILL ALIVE, the acclaimed author of INTO THE KILN, comes a unique, moving story of unrequited love…

In a crowded bus station in Denver, a young man named Devin waits alone in the night.

Trying not to think about her. About Monica. How he could always make her laugh.

That, and nothing more.

Just four more minutes now. Before he leaves this city behind him forever.

A bittersweet story of unrequited love, teenage obsession, and what happens next when love doesn't conquer all.

đź›’ BUY IT NOW: Crags in the Sunset: An Unrequited Love Story

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Crags in the Sunset also appears in this collection:

Crags in the Sunset

(And Other Love Stories I Wrote In High School)

Master storyteller Bill Alive, author of THE PUNCTUALITY MACHINE, brings you five intense stories of love and relationships:

  • In "Dawn", the romantic Rick makes his very first profession of love in his high school gym… to the devoted girlfriend of one of his best friends. But what happens next is the real surprise.
  • In "Crags in the Sunset", the lovelorn Devin follows his high school crush to college, but freshman year does not go according to plan.
  • In "Kevin and the Foxes", love takes a darker turn, and in a lonely house, high up on a mountain, a marriage nears the breaking point.
  • Then, in "Die Auswahl (The Choice)", a time-travel elixir shakes up the stale marriage of a sour power couple… and also causes some rather global unintended consequences.
  • Finally, in "Arcanus", when an enslaved teenager in Roman times is trapped on a brutal battlefield, he may seem as far from love as you can get. But his Latin name means "secret", and if he can survive long enough to discover that secret, the truth could change his whole life.

The twist? Alive wrote all these stories in high school.

No, really. (Okay, one in college, but still.)

Curious? Take a look.

đź›’ PREORDER NOW: Crags in the Sunset: (And Other Love Stories I Wrote In High School)

Click that link to preorder this e-book on any major online bookstore.

📚 For the paperback edition, use that link to go to Amazon.

Thank you for checking out this new release! Happy reading!

[Bill Alive]

Bill Alive