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Wash Me Away by Wendy Owens
Publication Date: April 27, 2015
Genres: Contemporary, Romance, Young Adult
Synopsis: 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.
Excerpt:
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.
Wendy Owens was 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. Her first novel flowed from her in only two weeks time. That moment was when she knew she had found her calling as an indie eBook author. 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. Check out her New Adult Romance and Young Adult Fantasy books.
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