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For Valkyrie Walker, Halloween had never been an ordinary day. It was her birthday and a day that held great importance in her life. The year she turned eighteen, she would realize just how important that day truly was, both to her past, and her future. When a handful of strangers turn up at her town’s annual Halloween festival, Valkyrie is struck with a feeling of foreboding. The appearance of these men will bring forth destruction and death for Valkyrie and the people she loves. But Valkyrie is no ordinary girl.

This is a collection of poetry by the author that functioned greatly as a diary as she navigated her way through the rocky existence that was her mid twenties. She describes what it's like to burn with anxiety, drown under the weight of depression, feel misrepresented with chronic health conditions, grieve the loss of a loved one, and more.

Balancing unexpected parenthood while going on tour with your band and searching for your missing best friend is easy…right? Getting the call telling me I’m a father was the best and most stressful day of my life. Now I have a little girl to care for and I’m barely able to take care of myself. So, my sister gets me to hire a nanny. Harlow is the definition of walking temptation and I’m somehow supposed to resist her while she lives in my house and takes care of my daughter. Sounds easy enough. Except I can’t resist her. I don’t want to.