Step Into The Grey Woods

When 911 happened I had this deep feeling that we needed to ‘set our arms down’ and reflect on the event. Reflect on the loss, reflect on the lives, and reflect on what all of us had in common. I literally had the same thought yesterday when Charlie Kirk was assassinated. Don’t misunderstand my words, I know his assassination is not the same magnitude as 911, but we need to have the same reaction. Violence, death, division, pointing fingers overseas at a general population, pointing fingers across the aisle at another general group of people. It’s easy to hate someone, to kill someone, to harm someone when they’re a faceless threat. I remember during 9/11 the gentleman I worked for was from Iran, and I remember worrying so deeply about him walking down the street and someone hating him, hurting him, murdering him because he was Middle Eastern. It’s easy to say the other side is wrong. But what do you think the other side says of you? I was in Bennington College at the time and the week after 9/11 happened, I was finally back on campus. I remember the kid next to me holding the newspaper with a picture of the towers burning. To this day I actually can’t even look at that picture. He put the paper down and announced, ‘we should just blow the Middle East off the map’. To my right was my dear friend who is half Pakistani. That was when I truly learned these kinds of thoughts, and these kinds of reactions are very dangerous. No one addressed his comment and I remember wanting to just disappear into the floor and to take my friend with me.  These wars are not ours. These wars don’t belong to the people. For the victims of 9/11 and the families impacted in the aftermath, and for Charlie Kirk, can we finally come together and decide what this world is actually going to look like? Is it going to look like this? Or can it look a hell of a lot better if we ‘set down our arms’ and put our hearts and minds together and decide what we want our world to look like. Because there’s no one who wants this unless they’re trying to control you. If you’ve read this, I love you ❤️‍🩹

Hardcover is available now! Grab at copy 👉 https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0FQD71V6F These characters have been with me as long as I can remember... and this book gave me a chance to reconnect with them in a whole new (dystopian) world lol I hope they bring you as much joy as they have brought me. If you’re as excited as I am please drop a comment, a like and share with your friends so they can meet these crazy people too 😁 I appreciate you all! #thewakinghours #jcarsonrose #FantasyAdventure #dystopianreads

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Meet Madoc ‘Doc’ Strong. A troubled teen with a troubled family life offered by his father to a secret government program for kids with ‘special abilities’. A rebel all his life, Doc escaped the years of experiments, the mind control and the torture only to dive headlong back into it to save Ashlin from a similar life of suffering. The flawed hero, the insufferable good guy, the self destructive force who holds the key to saving humanity. #thewakinghours More to discover at thegreywoods.com

Meet Ashlin Nobel, the heroine of The Waking Hours. Since birth, she has been tracked and hunted by a secret, government organization that collects gifted children. Her father was one of their most powerful specimens, which makes her an irresistible catch for the bad guys! Join her journey #thewakinghours Check out my site for more characters! thegreywoods.com

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