{"id":691645,"date":"2026-04-20T01:49:00","date_gmt":"2026-04-20T00:49:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/?p=691645"},"modified":"2026-04-20T14:41:14","modified_gmt":"2026-04-20T13:41:14","slug":"the-diary-of-derek-drummond-the-story-of-my-cursed-life-by-katelyn-emilia-novak","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/the-diary-of-derek-drummond-the-story-of-my-cursed-life-by-katelyn-emilia-novak\/","title":{"rendered":"The Diary of Derek Drummond: The Story of My Cursed Life by Katelyn Emilia Novak"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The Diary of Derek Drummond: The Story of My Cursed Life by Katelyn Emilia Novak<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>An immortal soul. A forgotten curse. A love that rewrites fate.<\/p>\n<p>Once a proud Scottish nobleman, Derek Drummond has spent 124 years caught between day and night, hiding from the world \u2014 and from himself. A shadow among shadows, he has watched time unravel, love vanish, and hope fade into myth.<\/p>\n<p>Until Megan MacKenzie looks at him \u2014 and sees more than she should.<\/p>\n<p>With haunted eyes and a quiet, stubborn kindness, she stirs the man he used to be. But the past never stays silent. Some curses won\u2019t break. And some ghosts refuse to let go.<\/p>\n<p>Told entirely in Derek\u2019s voice \u2014 darkly poetic, sardonic, and painfully human \u2014 The Diary of Derek Drummond is a gothic fantasy of redemption and reckoning.<\/p>\n<p>From the storm-lashed cli\ufb00s of northern Scotland to the rain-soaked rooftops of London, it is a story of immortality, forgiveness,and the terrifying hope of being truly seen.<\/p>\n<p>If you believe in second chances \u2014 even after death \u2014 open the diary.<\/p>\n<p>See more &amp; buy @ :- <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"><a style=\"color: #3366ff; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/Diary-Derek-Drummond-Story-Cursed\/dp\/1806341360\">https:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/Diary-Derek-Drummond-Story-Cursed\/dp\/1806341360<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-691653\" src=\"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Screenshot-2026-04-20-143914-615x839.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"615\" height=\"839\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Screenshot-2026-04-20-143914-615x839.png 615w, https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Screenshot-2026-04-20-143914.png 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 615px) 100vw, 615px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Diary of Derek Drummond: The Story of My Cursed Life by Katelyn Emilia Novak An immortal soul. A forgotten curse. A love that rewrites fate. Once a proud Scottish nobleman, Derek Drummond has spent 124 years caught between day and night, hiding from the world \u2014 and from himself. A shadow among shadows, he [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":691652,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-691645","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-clubs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/691645","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=691645"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/691645\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":691654,"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/691645\/revisions\/691654"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/691652"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=691645"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=691645"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=691645"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}