Amethyst of Youth

<p><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)><em>Meet the Stonewardens...</em></strong></p><p><br></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>The youngest member of the Stonewarden family Charlotte (Charlie) is 18 years old. As with everyone in her family when they reach that age she's been told that when she turns 19 she'll be recruited into the family business. She has her warning that she has one year to do anything else she wishes to do - travel study work. Whatever she wants to do she has 365 days to do it. On her next birthday her life will effectively stop being her own.</span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>But Charlie wants nothing to do with the business. The youngest of six with five older brothers she wants a different life. Maybe if the family business was something normal like a retail shop or a business centred around trade she'd feel differently. There are people who say that her family's long term history of robbing from the rich and providing to the poor is a good thing. To her all she can see is that they are thieves. Plain and simple.</span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Her view is further secured when she and her older brother Max are shot at in a local supermarket. Seeing Max lying in blood and later lying unmoving in hospital in a coma pushes her further in her resolve to find a way to not take part in the activities of her father and brothers.</span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>At the shootout she is saved by a checkout operator Ash. Whilst building their friendship Charlie will learn things about her family that she didn't particularly wish to know. She will hear more and more that she can't share with Ash and the more she learns the wider the gap will become.</span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>In years she's young but having lost her mother when she was only 9 years old Charlie has an older soul. The possibilities she'll be presented with during her one final year of her own will push her in her considerations of how she really wants her life to be.</span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>She wants one thing. Her strict ex-military father wants another. The dynamics of her new friendship will pull her in a third direction.</span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>How will she choose what's right for her? And what would she have to do to break free from the chains that she can see her father wants to place around her for the rest of her life?</span></p><p> </p><p><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>**NOTE: While Amethyst of Youth does contain a few short moments of raunchiness and explicit language it is primarily set around the sweet and slow romance of one character.</em></p>