Will's Wake

<p class=ql-align-justify><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>Under redwoods older than empires 11-year-old Shree's dreams are sinking fast. Power is down food has run out and a river of mud has erased the only road of escape. Shree is alone with her father. A father who is hiding the worst of a growing storm. As the rains fall and a chorus of voices torments him whispers begin urging Tony to kill his daughter.</span></p><p class=ql-align-justify></p><p class=ql-align-justify><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>Wendy and Shree first bonded over the pain of their dysfunctional families. Yet when Shree runs away from her angry lying mother and disappears with her mythical father Wendy is left alone to face her tormentors. Will a mysterious envelope from far away protect her from her abusive brother or the venom of her classmates? Will secret letters be enough?</span></p><p class=ql-align-justify></p><p class=ql-align-justify><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>Part descent into psychosis part ode to friendship </span><strong style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>Will's Wake</strong><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)> is a coming-of-age novel that asks if two children can untangle emotions and intentions to rescue each other when those they should look up to fall short.</span></p><p class=ql-align-justify></p><p class=ql-align-justify><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>WARNING</strong><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>: </span><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Despite the two main characters being tweens this novel is not aimed at children as it wrestles with the nightmare of psychosis drug use suicide and other mature topics.</em></p><p class=ql-align-justify></p>