I want to tell you all of that, but then my story would be masked with lies and not worth telling.
My life didn’t start until I left my past. And I left everything. My mother, my friends, my name.
My new name, the name everyone knows me by is Erin Lewis.
Four years after finding the courage to leave her hometown in Alabama, Erin is finally happy with where her life has led her. Not only is she secure in her environment, but the relationships she has formed center her, making her forget how damaged she once was. Before she can fully settle into her new life, her past crashes into her present, unraveling a set of events that destroy the very foundation she has built her new life on.
I had a really hard time getting into this book. Honestly I was about of the third of the way into it and about to give up. Then the real meat of the story started and I was much more interested in what was going to happen to the characters.
Erin was pretty jaded when the story began and despite knowing that she had had a hard life growing up I had a hard time really feeling bad for her in the beginning. She was difficult for me to like. Until she started having to work through all of her issues and make herself healthy.
Erin was a much better person for those that she loved than for herself. I think that is why I didn't connect with her at first. Once she actually had people that she was willing to fight for she was actually a pretty great person
And Shayna, Lord, she was just so sweet and sad. I am glad that she was part of the story, I honestly probably wouldn't have been nearly as invested in the story if not for her.
I am really glad that I stuck through the beginning and rode this story out. The last 2/3 of the book was definitely worth it. Erin was truly a self-made person and her's is a story of the transformation that a person can make when they decide that they can no longer hide or run, and what taking those steps to heal can do for a person.
Thanks Anna G
I’m a Hispanic living in South Florida with my redneck husband from Texas and our “half breed” son, who is actually the reason I started writing again after years of celibacy. My son loves stories, but not the kind you can read in an existing book. No, he’d rather make up a story, complete with our own illustrations. So, thank you, Son, for igniting a flame I had let go out.I also live with two dogs: a neurotic Border Collie we call Nitro and a midget Rottweiler named Nisa.
I have always found my sanctuary at the beach and in music and writing. I wish I could write rhymes so I could become a famous rapper, but rhyming is completely lost on me.
I have a Bachelor’s degree in Business Management and a Master’s in Human Resource Management. I have held several jobs, from picking up dog crap to upper management positions. And now I am hoping to leave the business world behind so I can live full time in a world that does not exist until I place my fingers on a keyboard and bring them to fruition.
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