Wash Me Away
by Wendy Owens
Publication date: April 27th 2015
Genres: Contemporary, Romance, Young Adult
Publication date: April 27th 2015
Genres: Contemporary, Romance, Young Adult
Monsters have a way of following you.
Immersed in a new world at boarding
school, Addy Buckley learns she’s not the only one with secrets. While trying
to navigate the minefield of painful lies that seem to be rattling around her
family’s past, she meets soft on the eyes and heavy on the heart, Napoleon
Blake.
When faced with the darkness, Addy
must decide to cling to her new life and friends or let the monster carry her
away. The choice is hers, sink or swim.
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I
smile at the sincerity in his voice. “Thank you.”
“No,
thank you for keeping the ghosts away. ”He’s no longer looking at me. Instead
he watches our friends leap into the air, laughing and screaming as they chase
the fluttering glow bugs.
I
think about his words. That’s exactly what he has done for me … keep the ghosts
away.
I
lay down in the tall grass, my head tilted to the night sky, the moon full over
our heads.
“Alrighty,”
he says, filling the void next to me. “What are we doing?”
“Watching.”
“For?”
he asks.
“God.”
His
hand seeks mine through the blades of grass, our palms flat against one
another’s. My heart starts to race. I’m listening to the song of the crickets
mixed with our friend’s laughter, and in that moment I want nothing more than
to crash into Leo and make the world stop turning. Instead, I settle for the
moment, touching a friend’s hand, quietly keeping the ghosts at bay for one
another.
“Do
you think he’s there?” he asks.
“Who?”
I forget what we’re talking about, distracted by his touch.
He
doesn’t move his hand away. “God.”
I
swallow. I’ve wondered that a lot, especially as a little girl, on those nights
that Daddy would visit my room. “I don’t know,” I answer in barely a whisper.
“It’s
a nice thought.”
“What
is?”
“The
whole heaven thing. That people are waiting for us,” he says.
“I
guess.”
“What?
You don’t believe in heaven?”
“I
don’t know,” I say again honestly. “If that’s all real, it just seems hard to
swallow.”
“What
does?”
“Suffering,”
I reply.
He’s
quiet, and I wish I hadn’t rained on the moment. “Yeah, it is.”
I want to tell him I hope there’s a heaven
because he deserves to see his brother again. I want to tell him that I hope
hell exists because people like my father deserve to go there. I want to tell him
that through all the bull, I still have hope it’s all real and this being is
out there, loving me with all the blemishes others have placed onto me. But
instead I lay there, content with the touch of his hand.
Adult and NA is published under Wendy Owens
Wendy Owens is a writer, born in the small college town, Oxford Ohio. After attending Miami University, Wendy went onto a career in the visual arts. After several years of creating and selling her own artwork she gave her first love, writing, a try. It’s become a passion ever since. Wendy now happily spends her days writing the stories her characters guide her to tell, admitting even she doesn’t always know where that might lead. Her first series, The Guardians, is a YA fantasy series about angel and human hybrids.
Wendy Owens is a writer, born in the small college town, Oxford Ohio. After attending Miami University, Wendy went onto a career in the visual arts. After several years of creating and selling her own artwork she gave her first love, writing, a try. It’s become a passion ever since. Wendy now happily spends her days writing the stories her characters guide her to tell, admitting even she doesn’t always know where that might lead. Her first series, The Guardians, is a YA fantasy series about angel and human hybrids.
Since then she has branched into NA Contemporary Romance
and released titles to include Stubborn Love, Only In Dreams, and Do
Anything. Her next romance, The Luckiest is scheduled to be released
in July 2014.
When she’s not writing, this dog lover can be found spending time with her tech geek husband, their three amazing kids, and two pups. She loves to cook and is a film fanatic.
When she’s not writing, this dog lover can be found spending time with her tech geek husband, their three amazing kids, and two pups. She loves to cook and is a film fanatic.
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