I realize this may not be the best place to share a YA story, but being a young adult myself, I figured there must be someone looking for this type of novel on this awesome site! Anyway, Of Ashes came to me while I was thinking about the implications of having a mental illness at a young age and the way the frailty of the mind can make us vulnerable to manipulation. It is a story of young Katherine Alistair who, after waking up from a catatonic stupor, realizes she cannot remember the entire year she was institutionalized, or the events that led her there.

I just uploaded the first draft of the first chapter! Please read it and be gentle with me; I’m new to having an audience.

God bless!