Walking with Monsters

When Ellie saw him sitting there, he looked lost, alone, and sopping wet. She had never seen anything more so sad in her entire life. Out to save the world one charity case at a time, Ellie brought him home with her. A few hours of video games punctuated by an argument with her older brother ended in men in full tactical gear busting through the windows, the front door. Bullets began to fly. Screams rang out. Something moved through the darkness gutting the mercenaries, spilling blood to the floor.

Ellie fell to the ground. One of the mercenaries still alive leveled his Colt M4 assault rifle at her head. The monster stepped in front of her folding its mottled gray body around her, taking every bullet. That monster saved her life. The monster spirited her away into the night, to safety. He showed Ellie a world  she never would have believed existed. However, he left her brother. Ellie wasn't plunged into a world of darkness and razor sharp rules. She jumped in headfirst, screaming "Geronimo" all the way down. Willing to do whatever it took to save her brother.

There are a hundred books that tell the story of the plucky teenage girl falling in love with the scary monster. With him bending over backward to fit into her world, he tries to be human. This book tells the story of the plucky teenage girl falling in love with the scary monster. But she is trying to fit into his world. Where bullets fly, blood is spilled, and death happens. This is the story of a girl becoming a monster.