Wash Me Away by Wendy Owens
Publication date: April 27th 2015
Genres: Contemporary, Romance,
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.
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Excerpt:
My heart leaps into my throat, and time has lost meaning. The entire car leans up on two
wheels as it travels to the left, rather than straight ahead. My body presses into my father’s, and I
wish more than anything I could hold myself away from him. He reaches for the door handle, but
his efforts are futile, as the water has already risen to his window. We continue to move with the
current, until it completely picks up the car. The metal tomb flips and turns onto the driver’s side
door, snapping off the mirror. I don’t think. I struggle to unbuckle my seatbelt with one hand, the
weight of my body pulling the strap taut, and crank down the passenger window with the other.
Like a seamless and rehearsed dance, everything happens perfectly. The window is down, the
buckle releases its grasp, and I grab on to the edge of the open window. Using the edge of the
steering wheel, and my headrest, I push myself up and out the opening.
The car slows, but it’s still moving with the flow of the water, rocking from side to side as the
muffled sounds of metal scraping against the earth fill the vessel. “Addy Mae,” he cries up after
me. It’s a tone I’ve never heard from him, or at least I don’t recall. I look down at him; his eyes
are wide with fear. I feel sorry for him, the need to help him overwhelming me.
I drop to my knees, readying myself to extend a hand. The car jerks unexpectedly, and I fall
to my stomach, gripping the rim of the window for support. A cracking sound echoes from inside
of the car. I look down to see a large rock has wedged itself firmly into the windshield, cracked
glass splintering outward.
“Goddamn it, Addy, you better get me the hell out of here,” he shouts. There he is, I think.
The father I know. My hand is halfway extended when I pause and pull it back. “What the—”
The windshield gives way, and the shards rush inward with a gush of water. His expression, his
words—they all disappear in an instant, beneath the murky, churning waters.
AUTHOR BIO:
YA is published under Wendy L OwensAdult and NA is published under Wendy Owens
Wendy Owens is a writer, 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. It’s become a passion ever since. 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. Her first series, The Guardians, is a YA fantasy series about angel and human hybrids.
Since then she has branched into NA Contemporary Romance and released titles to include Stubborn Love, Only In Dreams, and Do Anything. Her next romance, The Luckiest is scheduled to be released in July 2014.
When she’s not writing, this dog lover can be found spending time with her tech geek husband, their three amazing kids, and two pups. She loves to cook and is a film fanatic.
When she’s not writing, this dog lover can be found spending time with her tech geek husband, their three amazing kids, and two pups. She loves to cook and is a film fanatic.
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