Books by Luke William Smith
Book 01 · Romance
ei·do·lon — (noun, literary) a spectre or phantom.
About the story
Alice Monroe has spent most of her life feeling wrong in ways she could never properly explain. While other children learned how to exist effortlessly in the world, Alice learned to hide panic attacks behind nervous smiles, and silence behind sarcasm.
Then there was Jeremy. The boy across the street. The one who sat beside her through thunderstorms, helped with her homework and stood up to the school bullies. As they grow older, friendship shifts quietly into something deeper, more terrifying and infinitely more fragile. What starts as comfort slowly becomes dependency. What begins as survival slowly becomes love.
When Alice finally agrees to see a therapist, her healing begins. And for Jeremy, so do the changes: missing hours, gaps in his memory, a home he can no longer quite picture. The healthier Alice becomes, the more Jeremy begins to slip away.
Some loves heal us. Others become part of the wound.From the preface
This is not a love story in the ordinary sense. It is a story about loneliness, tenderness and the people who stay, with a twist that means nothing is ever quite as it seems.
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Book 02 · Memoir
About the story
This is the true story of a boy who grew up too fast, and the man who refused to let where he came from decide where he would end up. Born in a turbulent time surrounded by violence, crime and drugs, Luke William Smith was forced to adapt early, and discovered inner strength and self-reliance.
From a fresh start on his own terms in Japan, to coming home to his mother's terminal illness and battling the streets to survive, to rebuilding his life from the ground up, Luke tells it plainly, without clichés or easy answers. A raw, uncompromising memoir about accountability, resilience and the quiet courage it takes to change your own story.
Sometimes, the hardest journeys lead to the most incredible destinations.From the book
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