Something I Am Not
2020 Christian Indie Award; 2020 Carol Finalist; 2024 Screencraft Cinematic Book Award Finalist
"There are those moments that life deals out that can never be erased, never redone or prepared for. Never justified or reconciled. And the level of pain they cause is commensurate to the indelible effects they have on the soul."
Small town high school quarterback hopeful, Billy McQueen, works hard to keep his life together and concealed. His friends will never know what happens in his father's barroom and in the apartments upstairs.
For his eighteenth birthday, Billy receives a bottle of Jack Daniels and a prostitute to make him a man. He is introduced to a brother he never knew he had—an eight-year-old incapable of navigating the corrupt underworld of his father's operation.
When his brother becomes the perfect leverage for Billy's compliance in all manners of things, freedom is no longer the only thing he barters for. Now, to save his little brother, he must be willing to trade everything, even his own life.
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2016 ACFW Genesis Award for Best Contemporary
2020 Christian Indie Award for Best Young Adult Fiction
2020 ACFW Carol Award Finalist for Best YA
"This book was amazing! I was captivated by the character, Billy. His struggle grabbed me from the very start. Great read! I couldn't put it down!"
(Martha Martin, Administrative Assistant, Pillar College)
“I've never read a book like this one… This story will stay with me for a very.long.time.”
(Amazon Customer)
“Well done! Well done! This book should be on the New York Times Bestseller list. Wonderful debut novel. Beautifully written. Sad yet sacred.”
(B.O. - Reader)
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Debuted January 25th, 2019 with two months on Amazon’s #1 New Release List
"Something I Am Not" is published with Lighthouse Publishers of the Carolinas (LPC Books).
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