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Ashly Lorenzana

Ashly Lorenzana

About

Ashly Lorenzana was born on October 2nd, 1987 in Portland, OR where she continues to live today, with her Chihuahua mutt named Bub.

With over five years of experience working as an independent escort, Ms. Lorenzana now devotes a great deal of her time to writing business, whether doing freelance work, blogging for fun, or ranting about her life in general and then calling it a book.

In addition to enjoying crystal meth, she also considers herself an intense and competitive Scrabble player.

Along The Watchtower

Along The Watchtower

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<p><strong><em>A tragic warrior lost in two worlds... Which one will he choose?</em></strong></p><p>The war in Iraq ended for Freddie when an IED explosion left his mind and body shattered. Once a skilled gamer as well as a capable soldier, he's now a broken warrior, emerging from a medically induced coma to discover he's inhabiting two separate realities.</p><p>The first is his waking world of pain, family trials, and remorse—and slow rehabilitation through the tender care of Becky, his physical therapist. The second is a dark fantasy realm of quests, demons, and magic, which Freddie enters when he sleeps. The lines soon blur for Freddie, not just caught between two worlds, but lost within himself.</p><p>Is he Lieutenant Freddie Williams, a leader of men, a proud officer in the US Army who has suffered such egregious injury and loss? Or is he Frederick, Prince of Stormwind, who must make sense of his horrific visions in order to save his embattled kingdom from the monstrous Horde, his only solace the beautiful gardener, Rebecca, whose gentle words calm the storms in his soul.</p><p>In the conscious world, the severely wounded vet faces a strangely similar and equally perilous mission to that of the prince—a journey along a dark road, haunted by demons of guilt and memory. Can he let patient, loving Becky into his damaged and shuttered heart? It may be his only way back from Hell.</p>

Story Behind The Book

My name is Ashly and for the past several years I have worked as a female escort. I started out by advertising in the now extinct Craig's List "erotic services" section. Having lived with my grandparents for most of my childhood, moving to Portland from the Oregon Coast gave me a chance to spend some time with my mother. Like her, I'm a drug addict with a decided preference for crystal meth or "uppers" in general. In an odd and unexpected way, it was our addictions that brought us "together." It always seemed to be a man that ended up forcing us apart again. Many new experiences were waiting for me in Portland, some of which I would never have imagined. Moving to Portland is where it all started. This book is a scattered personal journal chronicling the last several years of my very unconventional life.

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The Oregonian Newspaper

🔗 http://www.oregonlive.com/news/oregonian/steve_duin/index.ssf/2011/01/steve_duin_ashly_lorenzana_is.html

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KION Central Coast News

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Reviews

<span style="font-family:verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;line-height:normal;font-size:small;"><span><strong><em><span>&quot;The mental and physical anguish that is portrayed will certainly reach anyone and pull at them as a human being.&quot;</span></em></strong></span> --Claudia Rhyes (</span><span style="line-height:normal;font-size:small;"><a href="http://www.manicreaders.com/index.cfm?disp=reviews&amp;bookid=10149">ManicReaders.com</a></span><span style="font-family:verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;line-height:normal;font-size:small;">)<br /><br /><span><strong><em>&quot;If you choose to read this book, be prepared for the painful truth.  Ashly holds nothing back -when it comes to drug use and Mom.&quot;</em></strong></span> --Shannon Yarbrough (</span><span style="line-height:normal;font-size:small;"><a href="http://llbookreview.com/2011/01/review-185-sex-drugs-being-an-escort-by-ashly-lorenzana/">LLBookReview.com</a></span><span style="font-family:verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;line-height:normal;font-size:small;">)<br /><br /><span><strong><em>&quot;My intentions were to finish reading this book earlier this month, but it was such a &quot;heavy&quot; read that I had to read it in small doses.&quot;</em></strong></span> --Mandy (</span><span style="line-height:normal;font-size:small;"><a href="http://literaryrr.blogspot.com/2011/02/review-sex-drugs-being-escort-by-ashly.html">Literary R&amp;R</a></span><span style="line-height:normal;font-size:small;"><span style="font-family:verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">)</span></span><div><br /><div style="font-family:verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"></div><div><span style="font-family:verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong><em>&quot;Ashley is a unique young woman who took the lemons of her childhood and made them into lemonade...</em></strong></span><strong style="font-family:verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><em>You may find her choice of lifestyle distasteful, even immoral from your standards; but the better you know her, the more you will understand why she selected to continue in her profession.&quot; </em></strong><span style="font-family:verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">--</span><a href="http://readersfavorite.com/cat-71.htm?review=4029">ReadersFavorite.com</a></div></div>