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Our Fault
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Authorial Context: Mercedes Ron
Content Warning: This section of the guide includes discussion of emotional abuse, child abuse, and violence.
Mercedes Ron is an Argentinian-born author who later moved to Spain, where she earned her degree in audiovisual communication at the University of Seville. Having “always dreamed of writing,” Ron began publishing “her first stories on Wattpad,” a popular online community that connects readers and writers (438). The three books in Ron’s Culpable Saga first appeared on Wattpad—My Fault (2017), Your Fault (2017), and Our Fault (2018)—all originally self-published in Spanish. The three novels were later republished by Bloom Books and have since been translated into over 10 languages.
In the acknowledgments section of the source text, Ron identifies Wattpad as “the ideal forum to showcase [her] work” and commends the site for “helping [her] connect directly with [her] readers” (436). Ron’s Culpable novels were adapted into a Spanish romantic drama, Culpa Mía, by Prime Video in 2023, starring Nicole Wallace and Gabriel Guevara. Since the success of Ron’s Culpable Saga, she has gone on to publish two subsequent sagas: the Enfrentados Saga, which includes Ivory (2019) and Ebony (2019), and the Dímelo Saga, including Tell Me Softly (2020), Tell Me Secretly (2020), and Tell Me with Kisses (2021).
All of Ron’s novels feature heated complex relationships between young adults. Her take on contemporary romance both satisfies and subverts genre expectations. Her titles also combine conventional genre tropes, like the forbidden romance and forced proximity tropes, with elements of the telenovela tradition. In the Culpable Saga, for example, stepsibling romances, kidnapping, unexpected pregnancy, psychological manipulation, and attempted murder effect a melodramatic atmosphere that facilitates Ron’s central themes. Ron has sold “more than a million copies” of her books, making her “a benchmark in youth romantic literature” (438). The Culpable Saga, in particular, is in conversation with other young adult contemporary romance titles including Ugly Love by Colleen Hoover, Flock by Kate Stewart, and After by Anna Todd.
Series Context: Culpable Saga
Ron’s Culpable Saga includes three titles: My Fault, Your Fault, and Our Fault. The three novels were all originally published in Spanish on Wattpad as Culpa Mía (2017), Culpa Tuya (2017), and Culpa Nuestra (2018), respectively. The series has since been adapted into a single Prime Video film called Culpa Mía.
My Fault introduces the primary characters, stakes, and conflicts of the three-part series. Like all of the Culpable novels, My Fault alternates between main characters Noah Morgan’s and Nick Leister’s first-person points of view. At the novel’s start, 17-year-old Noah moves from Toronto, Canada to Los Angeles, California after her mother Raffaella marries her lover, the wealthy William Leister. Noah is sad to leave her Toronto life behind and dreads living with her new stepfather and stepbrother Nick Leister. Nick similarly dreads sharing his home with Noah and finds her a threat to his private, “bad-boy” lifestyle outside the house. Over time, however, passion brews between the new stepsiblings, and they start a secret affair. A series of unexpected familial, social, and personal conflicts threatens their relationship, but they ultimately resolve their differences and commit to a relationship.
Your Fault picks up where My Fault leaves off. Noah and Nick are trying to make their complex, heated dynamic work after moving in together. Noah graduates from high school and starts attending college. Campus life introduces the couple to new conflicts, complicating their romance. When Noah hears that Nick is cheating on her, she sleeps with her therapist, Michael O’Neil—a decision that ends her and Nick’s relationship.
Our Fault begins roughly a year after Your Fault ends. The final novel in the series, the novel traces Noah and Nick’s attempts to reconcile their differences and pursue a future together. The narrative continues the novel’s enemies-to-lovers plot line and furthers the series’ overarching explorations of trauma, belonging, identity, and love.
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