Elizabeth was wading through pretty rocky waters, and so was Matty.
“In tragedy and despair, when an endless night seems to have fallen, hope can be found in the realization that the companion of night is not another night, that the companion of night is day, that darkness always gives way to light, and that death rules only half of creation, life the other half.” ― Dean Koontz, Lightning.
If there’s one thing that Elizabeth Frost knows, it’s that life is hard. With a mum who walked out on her at the age of seven, making way for a fairy-tale like, cruel step-mum and a father that did nothing to ease her pain, Elizabeth was thrown into a deep, dark void of loneliness.
Now at sixteen, Elizabeth lives in a state of hopelessness. And then one day, without any warning, she is forced to leave, with only a one-way ticket to London as a parting gift. This broken shell of a girl has no clue what to do, and she feels completely alone; no light shines in her dark life.
But what she is about to find out, is that everything has a companion, strong to weak, brave to scared and even dark to light, and Elizabeth might just have found her ‘light’ in the form of a brown haired, hazel eyed boy named Matty.
Apart they are nothing, but together they begin to learn that they are strong enough to hold their heads up high, brave enough to conquer the world and eventually they learn to love as much as two unloved creatures could; unequivocally, passionately and recklessly.
"'I tell the stars about you' Ashlynn broke the silence after they had both been staring at the sky for an ungodly amount of time."
Nothing has ever gone right for Noah, it never has. The only time he's had hope was when Ashlynn, his beloved, was still alive. Now he's succumb to the use of the strongest and strangest type of drug known in the Farnworth region to see his one true love again. Every night he restlessly falls into a blissful dream about her, which always ends in a horrific nightmare of the day she left. This has been his life for the past year, never showing his face past the woods which surround his cabin. The townspeople forgot he existed, the forest creatures think he's a walking corpse, and Noah's convinced he'll die soon enough to finally see his one true love, where ever she is.
Until some pathetic creature decides to help Noah by breaking into his home shoving him into withdrawal.
Observe Noah's journey as you meet old friends, new foes, intriguing frenemies, and fantastically dramatic mood swings which can each be described as their own character.
//tw. drug abuse, description of trauma, murder, sleep paralysis, nightmares