“You Own Me” by Mary Catherine Gebhard tells the story of a woman’s journey to happiness by the most unlikely (and romantic) of ways.
Salt Lake City, UT – Mary Catherine Gebhard uses her own sordid past as inspiration for her gut-wrenching and at times terrifying tale of love, lust, and death. “You Own Me,” the debut novel by indie writer Mary Catherine Gebhard, tells the story of happiness, and how it doesn’t simply happen because you fall in love. This novel has broad appeal and is something you won’t easily forget.
From the novel: “I’ll love you until you break my heart. I’ll give you the broken pieces of my heart as a goddamn offering to you, because you own it. Whole, shattered, alive, or dead; you own my heart no matter what condition it’s in. I’ll stay with you until you figure out how to feel. I’ll stay with you even if you never do.”
Lennox is on the run from her ex-boyfriend. She had to drop everything, tell no one, and move to a new town alone. She expected to be lonely, she expected to be afraid, she never expected to meet a man named Vic who drove her crazy with lust and anger and called her “Lenny.” If it’s at all possible, Vic is more twisted than the man she ran away from. She should ignore him, but they’re drawn to each other like magnets. Lennox ran from from Seattle to Santa Barbara to get away from violence, to create a new life, and to be something simple. Instead she’s found herself wrapped up in great friends and an epic love. This new life is the opposite of everything she wants, but it might just be everything she needs.
“You Own Me” is a unique dialogue on happiness in a world that seems to have forgotten what happiness truly means. “I wrote this as I was trying to figure out my own happiness,” Mary Catherine says. “I didn’t understand what it meant to be happy in today’s world. A lot of Lenny’s struggle was my own.”
According to the recent update, after only five days “You Own Me” is nearly halfway funded. Through Kickstarter, all money is going toward publication costs.
Kickstarter Page: www.kickstarter.com
About “You Own Me”
“You Own Me” is the evocative and thought provoking debut novel by indie writer, Mary Catherine Gebhard. A story about happiness and how it doesn’t simply happen because you fall in love, “You Own Me” tells the story of Lennox “Lenny” Moore and Vic Wall’s unusual romance.
About the Author:
Mary Catherine Gebhard is a survivor of chronic illness, disability, and cheesecake addiction. Her life has been a roller coaster of diagnoses, mental instability, and plain crazy. Her stories reflect the unique journey that her life is and will be. She occasionally goes on vacation from reality, but she sends postcards.
