KatCramer
Sam Christensen doesn't sleep much these days.
When she does, he's there - a man with yellow eyes, waiting in the dark. He's followed her through dreams since her sixteenth birthday, whispering threats she can't explain and promises no one else believes. But Sam knows the truth in her bones: he's real. And on her eighteenth birthday, he's going to kill her.
At school, Sam drifts through the days on autopilot, keeping her secrets close. Between a crumbling home life, a mother too broken to protect her, and the pressure of pretending everything is fine, she's barely holding herself together. Then there's Lily, her best friend, whom she's harbored feelings for for most of her life.
Now Sam has more questions than answers. What's real and what isn't? Why does the fear feel sharper with every passing day? And how do you fight something that only exists when you close your eyes?
Lavender & Ashes is a quiet descent into the mind of a girl unraveling; a haunting exploration of trauma, young love, and the dark spaces between love and fear, sleep and waking, truth and madness.