Zach pauses momentarily, letting his shirt fall back into its rightful position. "Hey, are you all right? You're kinda spacin'." Gray shakes his head softly, gently sliding off the mattress. "Nothing. It's just. . . I guess you can call them battle scars, right? A memory of, not the bad things you've been through, but the shit you've defeated in life." ______ It was five years ago today that Zach Mitchell had been forced to leave his younger brother behind. He was hunted, imperiled. . .anguished. Nothing was more important to him than the peppy little 11-year-old who tried to follow in his big brother's footsteps. Who saw him as nothing less than the most powerful superhero, despite the reckless mistakes Zach has made along his teen years. Today is the day that the now-21-year-old can attempt at recapturing his brother's trust. Since he's been released from his seemingly endless spell, he can attempt to earn back those five years of both ache and luxuries that he's missed out on. Except, there's a catch. There's always a catch. And, whether Zach is present in the Mitchell family or not, some things are just simply and inexplicably impossible to avoid. Song Playlist: 1.) Ready or Not - Esthero 2.) Home - Machine Gun Kelly, X Ambassadors, Bebe Rexha 3.) Battle Scars - Lupe Fiasco & Guy Sebastian 4.) Nightmare - NateWantsToBattle 5.) Soldier - Samantha Jade 6.) Hey Brother - Avicii 7.) Waves - Dean Lewis 8.) Runnin' - Adam Lambert 9.) Unpack Your Heart - Phillip Phillips 10.) Cold Water - Major Lazer, Justin Bieber, MØ 11.) Leave a Light On - Tom Walker 12.) TBD... ashwoodx | mystery/thriller | 2018

#𝟙 𝕚𝕟 𝕃𝕖𝕤𝕓𝕚𝕒𝕟 - 𝔽𝕖𝕓 𝟙𝟚, 𝟚𝟘𝟚𝟛 | « WAM book one » When Sam is attacked by a rogue werewolf, she must do everything in her power to stay alive, survive the transformation, and bring the rogue to justice before she loses everything good in her life. ✩₊˚.⋆☾⋆⁺₊✧ If you ask Sam, she'd say she's a monster. A nice monster, but no less dangerous. She thinks the same of her own friends, so close they're nearly family. She didn't ask for this life, it was forced upon her one frigid winter evening. As it turned out, she owed her life to a pair of curious children, smart enough to shout for help as Sam lie beneath the beast, drenched in her own blood. She didn't ask for it, but was hers nonetheless. So she embraced her inner monster and used it to hunt down the very one that turned her. To bring him in safely or to end him warred in her mind. She longed for vengeance, but can't hurt his brother. In all this chaos, Sam has one rock, in Ada. An enigma--or as her best friend, Charlotte, put it once, a cryptid--Ada knocks her off her feet and then keeps her tantalizingly close to the truth of her cagey history. If not for Ada, the drive to bring down her attacker would be all consuming. She would like to think she was better than murder, but was she really? [ THIS BOOK CONTAINS: profanity, violence, death, suggestive content (steamy), mild drug & alcohol use ] ♦ 98,000 words ♦ We Are Monsters Series: - We Are Monsters - Magic Tricks - Dishonoured - a WAM novella - Moon Magic ✩₊˚.⋆☾⋆⁺₊✧ Ranking Records ✩₊˚.⋆☾⋆ ⁺₊✧ #1 - lesbian, Feb 12, 2023 #1 - womanxwoman, July 9, 2025 #1 - feminist, July 9, 2025 #2 - Canadian, July 14, 2025 "I keep coming back for more, Jesus ... I can't put it down, I literally cannot." "I can't praise this book enough. It's truly made me addicted and I crave more."